| Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is author of thirty-one novels, nineteen of which were published by Tor (New York). He is the recipient of four Hugo awards, two Nebula awards, two Hamilton-Brackett Memorial awards, the Mythopoeic Scoiety award, and two Association for Mormon Letters awards and has published short fiction in numerous anthologies, including Bright Angels & Familiars: Contemporary Mormon Stories and Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor. In 1987, he won the World Fantasy Award for best novella and has also edited five anthologies of short fiction. Card has written four other nonfiction works, including Saintspeak: The Mormon Dictionary (with Calvin Grondahl). He wrote a monthly review of books for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and holds a B.A. in theater from Brigham Young University and an M.A. in English from the University of Utah. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.
For literary study and bibliographic information on Card's many publications, see Michael Collings, In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card (New York: Greenwood Press, 1990) and Michael Collings, Storyteller: The Official Orson Scott Card Bibliography and Guide (Woodstock, GA: Overlook Connection Press, 2001).
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| Web Site |
Author's Website
http://www.hatrack.com/ |
| Also Known As |
P. Q. Gump; Byron Walley; Noam D. Pellume |
| Religion |
LDS |
| Birth Date |
August 24, 1951 |
| Birth Place |
Richland, Washington |
| LDS Missions |
Brazil |
| Spouse |
Kristine Allen Card |
| Children |
Geoffrey, Emily, Charlie Ben, Zina Margaret |
| Career |
Besides his writing, Card directs plays and teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. |
| Awards |
Hugo Awards
Nebula Awards
Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Awards
Mythopoeic Scoiety award
Association for Mormon Letters awards |
| Other Biographical Information |
Owner of Hatrack River Publications, LDS fiction publisher. |
Works by Orson Scott Card Sort by title | Year | Genre |
| Shadows In Flight | 2012 | Novel Fiction |
| Hamlet's Father | 2011 | Novel Fiction |
| The Lost Gate | 2011 | Novel Fiction |
| Pathfinder | 2010 | Novel Fiction |
| Hidden Empire | 2009 | Novel Fiction |
| Ender in Exile | 2008 | Novel |
| Keeper of Dreams | 2008 | Short Story Collection |
| Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show: volume 1 | 2008 | Short Story Anthology |
| Stonefather | 2008 | Novel |
| Invasive Procedures | 2007 | Novel |
| The Space Boy | 2007 | Novel |
| Stonefather | 2007 | Short Story |
| A War of Gifts | 2007 | Novel |
| Empire | 2006 | Novel |
| Magic Street | 2005 | Novel |
| Posing as People: Three Stories, Three Plays | 2005 | Drama Collection |
| Shadow of the Giant | 2005 | Novel |
| Keeper of Lost Dreams | 2004 | Short Story |
| An Open Book: Poems | 2004 | Poetry Collection |
| Rachel and Leah | 2004 | Novel |
| Winter of Wishes | 2004 | Poetry |
| The Yazoo Queen | 2004 | Short Story |
| The Crystal City | 2003 | Novel |
| First Meetings: Three Stories from the Enderverse | 2003 | Short Story Collection |
| In the Dragon's House | 2003 | Short Story |
| Inventing Lovers on the Phone | 2003 | Short Story |
| Investment Counselor | 2003 | Short Story |
| The Origin of "Ender's Game" | 2003 | Personal Essay |
| The Polish Boy | 2003 | Short Story |
| Robota | 2003 | Unassigned |
| 50 WPM | 2002 | Short Story |
| Orson Scott Card: Casting Shadows | 2002 | Interview / Panel |
| Shadow Puppets | 2002 | Novel |
| Rebekah | 2001 | Novel |
| Saints | 2001 | Novel |
| Shadow of the Hegemon | 2001 | Novel |
| Sarah | 2000 | Novel |
| Characters and Viewpoint | 1999 | Reference Work |
| Enchantment | 1999 | Novel |
| Ender's Shadow | 1999 | Novel |
| Magic Mirror | 1999 | Children's Book |
| Future on Ice | 1998 | Short Story Anthology |
| Grinning Man | 1998 | Short Story |
| Heartfire | 1998 | Novel |
| Homebody | 1998 | Novel |
| Children of the Mind | 1996 | Novel |
| Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus | 1996 | Novel |
| Treasure Box | 1996 | Novel |
| Alvin Journeyman | 1995 | Novel |
| Earthborn | 1995 | Novel |
| Earthfall | 1995 | Novel |
| Homecoming: Earth | 1995 | Novel Collection |
| Families in Fiction | 1994 | Criticism |
| Homecoming: Harmony | 1994 | Novel Collection |
| Lovelock | 1994 | Novel |
| The Ships of Earth | 1994 | Novel |
| Turning Hearts: Short Stories on Family Life | 1994 | Short Story Anthology |
| Worthy to Be One of Us | 1994 | Short Story |
| Art as an Act of Charity | 1993 | Criticism |
| The Artist in Mormon Society | 1993 | Criticism |
| The Book of Mormon—Artifact or Artifice? | 1993 | Criticism |
| Building Zion | 1993 | Criticism |
| The Call of Earth | 1993 | Novel |
| The Coming of the Nonmembers | 1993 | Criticism |
| Consecration: A Law We Can Live With: A Parable | 1993 | Short Story |
| Eugene England and the Lighted Lamp | 1993 | Criticism |
| Living in Zion | 1993 | Criticism |
| Moral Storytelling | 1993 | Criticism |
| On Art, Morals, and Morality | 1993 | Criticism |
| The Problem of Evil in Fiction | 1993 | Criticism |
| Some Gospel Views | 1993 | Criticism |
| A Storyteller in Zion: Essays and Speeches | 1993 | Criticism Collection |
| The Changed Man | 1992 | Short Story Collection |
| Cruel Miracles | 1992 | Short Story Collection |
| Flux: Tales of Human Futures | 1992 | Short Story Collection |
| Lost Boys | 1992 | Novel |
| The Memory of Earth | 1992 | Novel |
| Monkey Sonatas: Fables and Fantasies | 1992 | Short Story Collection |
| Orson Scott Card: Creative Chaos | 1992 | Interview / Panel |
| Christmas at Helaman's House | 1991 | Short Story |
| Future on Fire | 1991 | Short Story Anthology |
| Laying Your Cards on the Table: An Interview with Orson Scott Card | 1991 | Interview / Panel |
| Xenocide | 1991 | Novel |
| The Best Day | 1990 | Novel Excerpt |
| Eye for Eye | 1990 | Short Story |
| The Folk of the Fringe | 1990 | Short Story Collection |
| How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy | 1990 | Reference Work |
| The Hypocrites of Homosexuality | 1990 | Criticism |
| Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card | 1990 | Short Story Collection |
| Memories of My Head | 1990 | Short Story |
| The Worthing Saga | 1990 | Novel |
| The Abyss | 1989 | Novel |
| Damn Fine Novel | 1989 | Short Story |
| Dogwalker | 1989 | Short Story |
| Hatrack River | 1989 | Novel Collection |
| Lost Boys | 1989 | Short Story |
| Mountains out of Molehills | 1989 | Personal Essay |
| The Originist | 1989 | Short Story |
| Pageant Wagon | 1989 | Short Story |
| Prentice Alvin | 1989 | Novel |
| Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow | 1989 | Poetry |
| Prophets and Assimilationists | 1989 | Criticism |
| Walking the Tightrope | 1989 | Criticism |
| Hart's Hope | 1988 | Novel |
| Red Prophet | 1988 | Novel |
| Treason | 1988 | Novel |
| America | 1987 | Short Story |
| Cardography | 1987 | Short Story Collection |
| Eye for Eye | 1987 | Short Story |
| Free Lancers | 1987 | Short Story |
| Orson Scott Card: Jack of Many Trades | 1987 | Interview / Panel |
| Saving Grace | 1987 | Short Story |
| Seventh Son | 1987 | Novel |
| West | 1987 | Short Story |
| Wyrms | 1987 | Novel |
| Ender's War | 1986 | Novel Collection |
| Prior Restraint | 1986 | Short Story |
| Speaker for the Dead | 1986 | Novel |
| Ender's Game | 1985 | Novel |
| The Fringe | 1985 | Short Story |
| On Sycamore Hill: A Personal View | 1985 | Personal Essay |
| Science Fiction and the Mormon Religion | 1985 | Criticism |
| The Worthing Chronicle | 1983 | Novel |
| Ainge | 1982 | Biography / Memoir |
| Clap Hands and Sing | 1982 | Short Story |
| Sermons in Critical Form : A Response to 'Sermons in Novel Form' by Susan Wakefield | 1982 | Criticism |
| Abel, Cain | 1981 | Poetry |
| Afterword: On Origins | 1981 | Personal Essay |
| The Changed Man and the King of Words | 1981 | Short Story |
| Dragons of Darkness | 1981 | Short Story Anthology |
| From a Spirit to the One Possessed | 1981 | Poetry |
| Hymn: All That the Earth Can Yield | 1981 | Poetry |
| Kingsmeat | 1981 | Short Story |
| Middle Woman | 1981 | Short Story |
| Openings | 1981 | Poetry |
| A Plague of Butterflies | 1981 | Short Story |
| The Porcelain Salamander | 1981 | Short Story |
| A Sacrament Hymn | 1981 | Poetry |
| Saintspeak: The Mormon Dictionary | 1981 | Unassigned |
| A Sepulcher of Songs | 1981 | Short Story |
| Tin Men | 1981 | Poetry |
| Unaccompanied Sonata & Other Stories | 1981 | Short Story Collection |
| Dragons of Light | 1980 | Short Story Anthology |
| Fat Farm | 1980 | Short Story |
| Holy | 1980 | Short Story |
| The Princess and the Bear | 1980 | Short Story |
| Songmaster | 1980 | Novel |
| St. Amy's Tale | 1980 | Short Story |
| To Alice, Recently of Wonderland | 1980 | Poetry |
| Adagio and Benediction | 1979 | Short Story |
| The Bully and the Beast | 1979 | Short Story |
| But We Try Not to Act Like It | 1979 | Short Story |
| Capitol | 1979 | Novel |
| Closing the Timelid | 1979 | Short Story |
| A Cross-Country Trip to Kill Richard Nixon | 1979 | Short Story |
| Deep Breathing Exercises | 1979 | Short Story |
| Eumenides in the Forth Floor Lavatory | 1979 | Short Story |
| Hard Driver | 1979 | Short Story |
| Hot Sleep: The Worthing Chronicle | 1979 | Novel |
| I Think Mom and Dad Are Going Crazy, Jerry | 1979 | Short Story |
| The Monkeys Thought 'Twas All in Fun | 1979 | Short Story |
| Mortal Gods | 1979 | Short Story |
| A Planet Called Treason | 1979 | Novel |
| Quietus | 1979 | Short Story |
| Sandmagic | 1979 | Short Story |
| Second Chance | 1979 | Short Story |
| Unaccompanied Sonata | 1979 | Short Story |
| The Best Family Home Evening Ever | 1978 | Short Story |
| Billy's Box | 1978 | Short Story |
| The Day the Nonmembers Moved In | 1978 | Personal Essay |
| Follower | 1978 | Short Story |
| Hitching | 1978 | Short Story |
| In the Doghouse | 1978 | Short Story |
| I Put My Blue Genes On | 1978 | Short Story |
| Mikal's Songbird | 1978 | Short Story |
| Saints-Eye View: On Art, Morals, and Morality | 1978 | Personal Essay |
| Saintspeak | 1978 | Personal Essay |
| A Thousand Deaths | 1978 | Short Story |
| Bicicleta | 1977 | Short Story |
| Ender’s Game | 1977 | Short Story |
| Family Art | 1977 | Criticism |
| Father, Mother, Mother, and Mom | 1977 | Drama |
| Gert Fram | 1977 | Short Story |
| Looking West | 1977 | Poetry |
| Malpractice | 1977 | Short Story |
| Taking Turns | 1977 | Review |
| In a Crowded Sunday School Class | 1976 | Poetry |
| Is Prophecy a Gift? | 1976 | Poetry |
| Jacob Smith of Somerset | 1976 | Poetry |
| Mormon Shakespear[e]s: A Study of Contemporary Mormon Theatre | 1976 | Criticism |
| [Review of] Huebener | 1976 | Review |
| Stone Tables | 1973 | Novel |
| The Conquest | | Film |
| Ender Quartet | | Novel Series |
| The Heavens are Opened | | Film |
| Homecoming | | Novel Series |
| Kirtland: The Spirit of God | | Film |
| Liberty Jail | | Drama |
| The Miracles of Jesus | | Film |
| Nephi and the Brass Plates | | Film |
| New York: The Church Restored | | Film |
| Remind Me Again | | Film |
| Roots of an American Prophet | | Film |
| Rumpole, War Movies, and Revisionist History | | Criticism |
| Stone Tables | | Drama |
| The Tales of Alvin Maker | | Novel Series |
| Women of Genesis | | Novel Series |
| [Review of] Napoleon Dynamite | | Review |