Orson Scott Card, the writer of Ender's Game, first began as a producer for plays in the 60's and 70's. His first actual published work was a short story called Gert Farm. He began to get noticed when he won the John W. Campbell Award for the best new writer in 1978 at the World Science Fiction Convention. In the 1980's, his book Ender's Game and the sequel Speaker for the Dead won the Hugo and Nebula awards. Orson mainly writes sci-fi, fantasy, biblical novels, and books about writing.
Some interesting facts about Orson Scott Card:
He was born in Richland Washington and named after his grandfather, who was the founder of a colony in Canada known as Mormon colony. He grew up reading books, and at age eight he read The Prince and The Pauper by Mark Twain, a 256 page book. He was about sixteen when his family moved to Orem, Utah. When he grew older, he was an editor of The Ensign, the magazine of the LDS Church. He then proceeded to get married to a lady named Kristine Allen, and they went to live in Greensboro, North Carolina. Soon after, he married another lady by the name of Heather Heavener (Card), and currently lives near Seattle.
Information found from Hatrack.com, Orson Scott Card's official website. This information is credible because I have verified the information on biography sites biblio.com and biography base, and both give the same story.
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