Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel, Speaker for the Dead (1986), both won Hugo[2][3] and Nebula Awards,[2][4] making Card the only author to win the two top American prizes in science fiction literature in consecutive years.