![]() ![]() That their best education is to "learn everything about everything" through reading.Ĭard "inherited a love of performing from his mother," especially enjoying the music of Broadway. When a childless family friend bought a collection of the Great Books, he encouraged Card to read them, which he did, including works of Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and Plutarch. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Book of MormonĪnd the Bible. Some of the memorable and influential books he read in his youth include Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper (read at age eight), historical novels by JosephĪltsheler and Elswyth Thane, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, Bruce Catton's The Army of the Potomac (read at age ten), William L. But he didn't stop there, readingĪbout history, politics, medicine, archeology, and more. As a boy he read all the books in the children's section at the library and then sneaked into the adult section, where he discovered science fiction. Grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. Orson Scott Card was born in Richmond, Washington in 1951 and ![]()
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