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Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels //Ender's Game//, //Ender's Shadow,// and //Speaker for the Dead,// which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools. Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (//Magic Street,// //Enchantment,// //Lost Boys)//, biblical novels (//Stone Tables,// //Rachel and Leah)//, the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with //Seventh Son)//, poetry (//An Open Book//), and many plays and scripts. Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He recently began a long term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. Card currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret.