Orson Scott Card is a great writer that had made many successful novels, for example; Enders Game, Speaker for the Dead, Lost Boys, and Treasure Box.  His writings have been translated into many different languages like Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish, and Swedish.  Many of his great novels have been made into plays like the musical Barefoot to Zion.  Orson was born in Richland, Washington and he grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He and his wife, Kristine, have five children.  He got his degree from Brigham Young and Utah University.