Orson Scott Card

Born:

August 24, 1951

Known for:

Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Science fiction, American Science fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Short stories

Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.