Orson Scott Card.Who is Orson Scott Card?Orson Scott Card (henceforth OSC) is an American contemporary writer. He is a prolific writer of numerous genres but best known for his science fiction novel "Ender's Game" and its sequel "Speaker for the Dead", for which he won two of the most prestigious awards, the Nebula and the Hugo. , in consecutive years. OSC's writing is dominated by moral issues and the relationship between characters. A devout Mormon, he believes all fiction has a strong moral message. He believes the message should be positive. However, his choice of subject matter and the amount of violence in his books raised eyebrows in the Mormon church. The characters in the card are usually put in the position of having to make difficult and interesting moral choices. Card believes it's the character's interaction with other people that makes him interesting. Family is also an important theme in his work. Background. OSC was born in Richland, Washington, in 1951 and was named after his grandfather, Orson Rega Card. OSC's great-grandfather, Charles Ora Card, was the founder of the Mormon colony in Cardston, Canada. Mormon beliefs are something that is like a red line in the Scott family, I'll come back to this later. OSC was an avid reader at a young age, at 8 years old he wrote "The Prince and the Pauper", which first attracted him. to English history. OSC wrote many historical novels, about the Civil War, the French and Indian Wars and even Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind." In addition to all his history and science fiction reading, he wrote the Scriptures, the Book of Mormon, and the Bible. to name a few examples. He was also fascinated by medical histories and books on the exploits of archaeologists. He inherited a love of performing, loved to sing (and still does) and there was a lot of singing in the Scott family. At age 16, the family moved to Orem, Utah (they had moved around a lot). He got a scholarship and entered BYU as an archeology major, but found himself spending more and more time in the theater department, so he changed his major. It was as a theater student that he began to study as a writer. “It's the best training in the world for a writer, having a live audience,” he says. Close to graduation, Card left for Brazil on a two-year mission for the Mormon Church..