"Orson Scott Card was born in Richland, Washington, in 1951. Card’s family comes from the ancient Mormon family. Later Card’s family bought a house in the little town of Santa Clara. To young Scott, living in Santa Clara meant hopping on his bicycle and riding down to the Santa Clara library, where he devoured all the books in the children's section and then sneaked into the adult section to discover the then-new genre of science fiction. At eight years of age, he read The Prince and the Pauper, which first attracted him to English history. Other historical novels about the Civil War and French and Indian War drew Card into American history, and when his parents gave him Bruce Catton's three-volume The Army of the Potomac for his tenth birthday, he had his first experience of the reality of war at every level. At about the same age, his older sister passed the book The Rise and fall of the Third Reich down to Scott. The account of the political and diplomatic manoeuvring and of the war itself was fascinating for him. Alongside fiction and history, Card also read scripture -- the Book of Mormon and the Bible -- and collections of sermons by Mormon prophets. He was also fascinated by histories of medicine.
Card inherited a love of performing from his mother. Card grew up in a house filled with music. Card had played French horn and tuba in California, and marched in school bands in Arizona."

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