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Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card at BYU Symposium 20080216 closeup.jpg
Card at Life, the Universe, & Everything in 2008.
 
Born
August 24, 1951 (age 62)
Richland, Washington
Residence
Greensboro, North Carolina
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Brigham Young University
University of Utah (M.A.)
University of Notre Dame (1980s graduate student)
Occupation
Author, critic, playwright / script writer, poet, public speaker, essayist, political activist
Prof. of Writing and Literature
(Southern Virginia University, 2005–present)[1]
Film assoc. producer
(Ender's Game, 2013)
 
Notable work(s)
Ender's Game series,
The Tales of Alvin Maker
Style
Science fiction, fantasy, thriller, horror, historical fiction and fantasy and biblical fiction, LDS fiction
Political party
Democrat (U.S.)
Board member of
Public television station UNC-TV (2013–present)[2]
National Organization for Marriage (2009–2013)[3]
Religion
Latter-day Saint (Mormon)[4]
Spouse(s)
Kristine Allen Card
Awards
Selected list:
Hugo Award (Ender's Game, 1986
Speaker for the Dead, 1987
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1991)
Nebula Award (Ender's Game, 1986
Speaker for the Dead, 1987
 "Eye for Eye," 1988)
Signature
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Website
www.hatrack.com
Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951)[5] 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[6][7] and Nebula Awards,[6][8] making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.[9][10] A film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card co-produced, is set for release in late October 2013 in Europe and on November 1, 2013 in North America.[11][12]
Card is a professor of English at Southern Virginia University,[13] has written two books on the subject of creative writing, hosts writing bootcamps and workshops, and serves as a judge in the Writers of the Future contest.[14] A great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, Card is a practicing member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In addition to producing a large body of fiction works, he has also offered political and social commentary in his columns and other writing. His views on homosexuality,[15] including his opposition to same-sex marriage,[16] have drawn controversy.[17][18]


Contents
  [hide] 1 Early life
2 Fiction 2.1 Science fiction
2.2 Other genres
2.3 Pseudonyms
3 On writing 3.1 Teaching
3.2 Books on writing
3.3 Writers of the Future
3.4 Children's books
4 Columns and op-eds
5 Personal views 5.1 Politics
5.2 Religion
5.3 Views about homosexuality
5.4 Science
6 Personal life
7 Awards
8 Works
9 See also
10 References
11 Further reading
12 External links 12.1 Interviews

Early life[edit]
Card is the son of Willard and Peggy Card, third of six children and the older brother of composer and arranger Arlen Card.[19][20] Card was born in Richland, Washington, and grew up in Santa Clara, California as well as Mesa, Arizona and Orem, Utah. He served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Brazil and graduated from Brigham Young University and the University of Utah; he also spent a year in a Ph.D. program at the University of Notre Dame. Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina,[19] an environment that has played a significant role in Ender's Game and many of his other works.
Fiction[edit]
See also: List of works by Orson Scott Card
Card began his writing career primarily as a poet, studying with Clinton F. Larson at Brigham Young University. During his studies as a theater major, he began "doctoring" scripts, adapting fiction for readers theater production, and finally writing his own one-act and full-length plays, several of which were produced by faculty directors at BYU. He also explored fiction writing, beginning with stories that eventually evolved into The Worthing Saga.
After returning to Provo, Utah from his LDS mission in Brazil, Card started the Utah Valley Repertory Theatre Company, which for two summers produced plays at "the Castle", a Depression-era outdoor amphitheater behind the state psychiatric hospital in Provo; his company's were the first plays ever produced at the Castle. Meanwhile, he took part-time employment as a proofreader at BYU Press, then made the jump to full-time employment as a copy editor. In 1976, in the midst of a paid role performing in the Church's musical celebrating America's Bicentennial, he secured employment as an assistant editor at the Church's official magazine, Ensign, and moved to Salt Lake City. It was while working at Ensign that Card published his first piece of fiction. His short story "Gert Fram" appeared in the July 1977 fine arts issue of that magazine under the pseudonym Byron Walley.
Science fiction[edit]
He wrote the short story "Ender's Game" while working at the BYU press, and submitted it to several publications. The idea for the later novel of the same title came from the short story about a school where boys can fight in space. It was eventually purchased by Ben Bova at Analog Science Fiction and Fact and published in the August 1977 issue. Meanwhile, he started writing half-hour audioplays on the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the New Testament, and other subjects for Living Scriptures in Ogden, Utah; on the basis of that continuing contract, some freelance editing work, and a novel contract for Hot Sleep and A Planet Called Treason, he left Ensign and began supporting his family as a freelancer.
He completed his master's degree in English at the University of Utah in 1981 and began a doctoral program at the University of Notre Dame, but the recession of the early 1980s caused the flow of new book contracts to temporarily dry up. He returned to full-time employment as the book editor for Compute! magazine in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1983. In October of that year, a new contract for the Alvin Maker "trilogy" (now up to six books) allowed him to return to freelancing.
Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead were both awarded the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, making Card the only author (as of 2013) to win both of science fiction's top prizes in consecutive years. Card continued the series with Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, "First Meetings in the Enderverse", Shadow of the Giant, Shadows in Flight, the 2007 release of A War of Gifts, and the 2008 release of Ender in Exile, a book that takes place after Ender's Game and before Speaker for the Dead. Card has also announced his plan to write Shadows Alive, a book that connects the "Shadow" series and "Speaker" series together. In 2008 Card announced that Ender's Game would be made into a movie, but that he did not have a director lined up. (Wolfgang Petersen had previously been scheduled to direct the movie subsequently moved on to other projects.) It was to be produced by Chartoff Productions, and Card was writing the screenplay himself.[21] Other works include the alternate histories The Tales of Alvin Maker, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, The Homecoming Saga, and Hidden Empire, a story about a near-future civil war in the United States, based on the Xbox Live Arcade video game Shadow Complex. He collaborated with Star Wars artist Doug Chiang on Robota and with Kathryn H. Kidd on Lovelock.
Other genres[edit]
He has since branched out into other areas of fiction with novels such as Lost Boys, Treasure Box and Enchantment. Other works include the novelization of the James Cameron film The Abyss, and the comic book Ultimate Iron Man for Marvel Comics' Ultimate Marvel Universe series. Outside the world of published fiction, Card contributed dialog to at least three video games: Loom, The Secret of Monkey Island and The Dig in the early 1990s.[22]
In 2000, Card published the first novel in The Women of Genesis series. This series explores the lives of the principal women mentioned in the first book of the Bible and includes Sarah (2000), Rebekah (2002), and Rachel and Leah (2004).
In the fall of 2005, Card also launched Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show.[23] He edited the first two issues, but found that the demands of teaching, writing, and directing plays for his local church theater group made it impossible to respond to writers' submissions in a timely manner; former Card student and experienced freelance writer and editor Edmund R. Schubert took over as editor on June 1, 2006.
The dialog and screenplay (but not the story) for the Xbox video game Advent Rising was written by Card and Cameron Dayton.[24]
In 2008, Card's novella Hamlet's Father, a retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet, was published in the anthology The Ghost Quartet (Tor Books). The work re-interpreted all of the characters' personalities and motivations.
Pseudonyms[edit]
Over the years Orson Scott Card has used at least seven pseudonyms.
The names Frederick Bliss and P.Q. Gump were used by Card when he was asked to write an overview of Mormon playwrights "Mormon Shakeſpears: A Study of Contemporary Mormon Theatre" for Spring 1976 issue of Sunstone magazine. According to Card he used these pseudonyms because the article included a brief reference to himself and his play "Stone Tables".[25]
The name Byron Walley was used by Card on his first published piece of fiction "Gert Fram" which appeared in the July 1977 fine arts issue of Ensign magazine. According to Card he used this name because he had a non-fiction article, "Family Art", a poem, "Looking West", and a short play, "The Rag Mission", appearing in the same issue.[25] Card also used the name Byron Walley in stories he published in Friend magazine, New Era magazine and in the anthology Dragons of Darkness. Stories by Byron Walley include: "Gert Fram", Ensign magazine, July 1977; "Bicicleta", Friend magazine, October 1977; "The Best Family Home Evening Ever", Friend magazine, January 1978; "Billy's Box", Friend magazine, February 1978; "I Think Mom and Dad Are Going Crazy, Jerry", New Era magazine, May 1979; and "Middle Woman", Dragons of Darkness, Ace Books, 1982.
The name Brian Green was also used by Card in the July 1977 fine arts issue of Ensign magazine. He used this name for his short play "The Rag Mission" because he had three other pieces appearing in the same issue.[25]
The name Dinah Kirkham was used to write the short story "The Best Day", in 1983.[26]
The name Noam D. Pellume was used by Card for his short story "Damn Fine Novel" which appeared in the October 1989 issue of The Green Pages.[27]
Card wrote the novel Zanna's Gift (2004) under the pen name Scott Richards, saying, "I was trying to establish a separate identity in the marketplace, but for various reasons the marketing strategy didn't work as we'd hoped."[28]
On writing[edit]
Teaching[edit]

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In 2005, Card accepted a permanent appointment as "distinguished professor" at Southern Virginia University in Buena Vista, Virginia, a small liberal arts college run according to the principles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Card has cited his frustration with dismal teaching methodology for creative writing in most universities as a reason for accepting this position, along with his desire to teach the techniques of effective fiction writing to writers whose values are more congruent with his own.[13] Card has worked closely with colleagues to develop ways to educate aspiring writers and has published two books on the subject. He was eager for the opportunity to apply these techniques in a university environment—his assorted workshops did not allow the follow-through he desired. After being deeply moved by stories of his students' parents in some of their essays, he decided to stop teaching regularly at the university to spend time with his youngest child who still lives at home.[29] Card returned to teaching for the spring semester of 2009.
Card has run an annual, one-week class that consists of an intensive critique workshop for aspiring writers called "Literary Boot Camp" and a two day workshop called the "Writer's Workshop."[30]
Books on writing[edit]
Card has written two books on the subject of creative writing – Characters and Viewpoint, published in 1988, and How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy, published in 1990. He was also a co-writer for How to Write a Million (though his contribution is actually a reprint of an earlier work).
Card also offered advice about writing in an interview in Leading Edge #23 in 1991.
Writers of the Future[edit]
Card serves as a judge in Writers of the Future,[14] a science fiction and fantasy story contest for amateur writers. It originated in the early 1980s by L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer and the founder of the the Church of Scientology, and continues to be funded and organized by Author Services Inc., an entity that manages Hubbard's literary work.
Children's books[edit]
Card won the ALA Margaret Edwards Award in 2008 for his contribution in writing for teens, selected by a panel of YA librarians.[31] "What have I done that made some wonderfully deluded people think that I should get the [award] for lifetime achievement in writing young adult fiction?", he asked in his address, and asserted that "There is no such thing as children's literature." Furthermore:[32]

I have not worked with YA editors; my work has never been marketed that way until Tor put a YA cover and a new ISBN on Ender’s Game — fifteen years after the book first came out, and long after it had become popular with young readers. Ender's Game was written with no concessions to young readers. My protagonists were children, but the book was definitely not aimed at kids. I was perfectly aware that the rule of thumb for children’s literature is that the protagonist must be a couple of years older than the target audience. You want ten-year-old readers, you have a twelve-year-old hero.

At the beginning of the book, Ender is six. Who, exactly, is the target audience?
Columns and op-eds[edit]
Card's column "Uncle Orson Reviews Everything," published at the Greensboro Rhinoceros Times, featured personal reviews of movies, books, and restaurants in the greater Greensboro area, in addition to a variety of other topics.[33] The column also later appears on his website, Hatrack River. Since 2008 Card has authored a column for the Mormon Times.
Personal views[edit]
Over his career, Card has been outspoken in various venues.
Politics[edit]
In a 2009 article denouncing the treatment former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin had received from "the liberal media," Card declared, "And yet, there remains this: I disagree with her on at least half the issues that matter to her. After all, even though I'm a moral conservative, I am a Democrat and for good reason, as long as you define 'Democrat' the way it was defined in 1977."[34]
Early in the 2008 presidential campaign he had labeled himself a "Moderate Democrat" and lamented, "I am a Democrat, and wish fervently that my party would nominate someone I could vote for." At the same time he expressed keen dismay at "Mitt Romney's tough stand on illegal immigration" and its evident appeal to Republican voters. He said Mexican immigration, in particular, was "an issue that could well destroy the Republican Party for years to come."[35] On the day before the election, he called Republican John McCain "the centrist candidate I support" although "I wanted very badly for Obama to be a candidate I could vote for, and was sorry when he turned out not to be." He expressed agreement with a friend's comment on Barack Obama, that "even though I don't want him to win, I'm so happy that a black candidate was nominated by a major party. It's about time."[36]
During the 2012 presidential primary campaign, Card wrote: "There are a lot of Republicans who really, really don't want Mitt Romney as their candidate.... A lot of Republicans hate Romney because he's Mormon, and they've been taught by their ministers that Mormons are an evil cult. This is absurdly false, but it's a serious factor in Republican politics. They don't dare admit their Mormon-hatred openly, because the Republican Party needs the Mormon vote the way Democrats need and count on the Jewish vote—a small and much-maligned religious minority, but one that votes as a bloc and contributes time and money far beyond their numbers.... Romney probably won't be and shouldn't be the Republican nominee, because too many people on the Left and the Right just can't get over his being Mormon."[37]
In the same December 2011 column, Card wrote, "to my own disgust, I find myself right now leaning toward Newt Gingrich, a man who, as a human being, in my opinion does not measure up to either Romney or Obama. But I think he'd make a better President than either." Card said that he was particularly impressed by how effective Gingrich had been in helping balance the federal budget during the Clinton administration, and that "despite [Gingrich's] negatives, there is nobody smarter or more capable or with a better record of good government seeking the office of President right now."[37]
In a controversial August 2013 essay that he described as "an experiment in fictional writing," Card imagines a future in which President Barack Obama rules as a "Hitler- or Stalin-style dictator" with his own national police force of "young out-of-work urban men." Obama and his wife Michelle would amend the U.S. Constitution to allow presidents to remain in power for life, as in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Hitler's Germany.[38][39]
Religion[edit]
Card's immersion in the Mormon faith has been an important facet of his life from early on. He is a great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, an important leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, and all of Card's ancestors from at least three generations have been members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). His ancestors include several other figures notable in the LDS Church, including the Cardston colony founder Charles Ora Card. As such, his faith has been a source of inspiration and influence for both his writing and his personal views.[20]
Views about homosexuality[edit]
Card publicly declared his disapproval of same-sex sexual relations and of same-sex marriage, and has authored various articles pertaining to this.[40][41] He has claimed that the term "homophobe", with which he is sometimes labeled, is used in order to imply that opponents of the "homosexual activist agenda" are mentally ill.[42] In a 1990 essay for Sunstone magazine, he wrote that the laws prohibiting homosexual behavior should "remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society." In May 2013, Card made a statement saying that he no longer advocates this, and says that the 1990 stance must be seen in the context of the times (such laws were still deemed constitutional at the time) and the conservative Mormon audience to whom his essay was addressed. "[N]ow that the law has changed," Card states, "I have no interest in criminalizing homosexual acts and would never call for such a thing, any more than I wanted such laws enforced back when they were still on the books."[43]
In a 2008 essay opposing same-sex marriage, Card stated that he regarded any government that would attempt to recognize same-sex marriage a "mortal enemy" that he would act to destroy: "If the Constitution is defined in such a way as to destroy the privileged position of marriage, it is that insane Constitution, not marriage, that will die."[42] In 2009 he became a member of the board of directors of the National Organization for Marriage, a group that campaigns against same-sex marriage.[44] Card resigned from the Board in mid-2013.[45]
Card has also voiced his opinion that paraphilia and homosexuality are linked. In a 2004 essay entitled Homosexual 'Marriage' and Civilization, Card wrote: "The dark secret of homosexual society—the one that dares not speak its name—is how many homosexuals first entered into that world through a disturbing seduction or rape or molestation or abuse, and how many of them yearn to get out of the homosexual community and live normally."[46]
Card's 1980 novel Songmaster depicts a homosexual relationship between a young man and a 15-year-old castrato. Card described this ephebophilic relationship as "a mutually self-destructive path" and stated: "I was not trying to show that homosexuality was 'beautiful' or 'natural'—in fact, sex of any kind is likely to be 'beautiful' only to the participants, and it is hard to make a case for the naturalness of such an obviously counter-evolutionary trend as same-sex mating."[43]
Additionally, in Card's 2011 novella Hamlet's Father, which re-imagines the backstory of Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Card was accused of directly trying to link the king's pedophilia with homosexuality. The novella prompted public outcry and its publishers were inundated with complaints.[47][48] The trade journal Publisher's Weekly criticized Card's "flimsy novella" and stated that the main purpose of it was to attempt to link homosexuality to pedophilia.[49] Card responded to the claim: "...[T]here is no link whatsoever between homosexuality and pedophilia in this book. Hamlet's father, in the book, is a pedophile, period. I don't show him being even slightly attracted to adults of either sex. It is the reviewer, not me, who has asserted this link, which I would not and did not make."[48]
In 2013, Card's views caused further controversy when he was selected as one of several recurring guest authors for DC Comics's new Adventures of Superman comic book series,[50] with critics of his hiring claiming his views conflicted with the ideals of Superman.[51][52] The LGBT activist website AllOut.org began an online petition asking DC Comics to drop Card from the project. DC Comics responded with a statement that it supported freedom of expression and that the personal views of individuals associated with the company were not the views of the company itself.[53] In March 2013, illustrator Chris Sprouse left the project due to the media attention[54] and some comic book stores announced a boycott.[55][56] DC Comics then announced that it had put Card's story on hold indefinitely and substituted it with a story written by Jeff Parker.[57]
One studio executive expressed the opinion that Card's involvement in promotion for the movie adaptation of Ender's Game could be a liability for the film,[58] which Blastr writer Dan Roth speculated as the reason Card did not take part in the Ender's Game film panel at San Diego Comic Con in July 2013 with the other principal cast and crewmembers of the film.[59] An LGBT group, Geeks OUT!, proposed a boycott of the film due to Card's anti-gay views.[60][61] The movie studio behind the film, Lions Gate, issued a statement saying that the company is "proud to have recognized same-sex unions and domestic partnerships within its employee benefits policies for many years” and that they “obviously do not agree with the personal views of Orson Scott Card."[62]
On July 8, 2013, one week after the U.S. Supreme Court issued rulings in two cases that were widely interpreted as favoring recognition of same-sex marriages, Card wrote in Entertainment Weekly that the gay marriage issue is "moot" due to the Supreme Court's decision on DOMA.[63]
Science[edit]
Although he supports government-funded research into alternative energy sources and the phasing out of fossil fuel use, Card has also frequently criticized precipitous action on global warming, and has suggested that scientific evidence against global warming is suppressed because global warming has become an academic orthodoxy that discourages opposing evidence.[64] His short story "Angles" also features scientists fearing to pursue research because it would run counter to scientific dogma. Card has also said that opposition to intelligent design is based on scientific dogma rather than a substantive assessment of the evidence. He also stated he believed the intelligent design movement will never be supported by genuine scientific evidence.[65]
Personal life[edit]

 

 Card (foreground) signing autographs at New York Comic Con in 2008
Card and his wife Kristine have had five children, each named after one or more authors he and his wife admire. Their children's names are Michael Geoffrey (Geoffrey Chaucer), Emily Janice (Emily Brontë and Emily Dickinson), Charles Benjamin (Charles Dickens), Zina Margaret (Margaret Mitchell) and Erin Louisa (Louisa May Alcott). Charles, who had cerebral palsy, died shortly after his 17th birthday and their daughter Erin died the day she was born.[19] Card and his wife live with their youngest child, Zina, in Greensboro, North Carolina.[19]
The life of their son Charles influenced some of Card's fiction, most notably the Homecoming series, Lost Boys and Folk of the Fringe. Their daughter, Emily, along with two other writers, adapted Card's short stories "Clap Hands and Sing", "Lifeloop" and "A Sepulchre of Songs" for the stage in Posing as People.[66]
In 2008, he appeared in the short film The Delivery, which starred his daughter Emily. He plays an author reading an audiobook in this film, which won First Place in Fantasy at Dragon*Con Film Festival. He wrote an original story, "The Emperor of the Air," specifically for the short film by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki.[67]
Card is an avid fan of the science fiction television series Firefly and makes an appearance in the documentary Done the Impossible about Firefly fandom.
Card suffered a mild stroke on January 1, 2011, and was briefly hospitalized. He reported expecting to make a full recovery despite impairment of his left hand.[68][69]
Awards[edit]
The ALA Margaret A. Edwards Award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work for "significant and lasting contributions to young adult literature". Card won the annual award in 2008, citing Ender's Game (1985), which inaugurated the science fiction Ender Saga, and Ender's Shadow (1999), the so-called parallel novel featuring another boy in the Battle School. According to the citation, the two boys' "experiences echo those of teens, beginning as children navigating in an adult world and growing into a state of greater awareness of themselves, their communities and the larger universe."[31] In the same year, Card won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Mormon writers (Whitney Awards).[70]
He has won numerous awards for single works, too.
1978 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer from the World Science Fiction Convention, citing the "Ender's Game" novelette
1981 Songmaster: Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Award, 1981
1984 Saints: Book of the Year by the Association for Mormon Letters[71]
1985 Ender's Game: Nebula Award, 1985;[8] Hugo Award, 1986;[6] Hamilton-Brackett Award, 1986; SF Chronicle Readers Poll, 1986
1986 Speaker for the Dead; Nebula Award, 1986,[6] Hugo Award, 1987;[7] Locus Award, 1987;[6] SF Chronicle Readers Poll Award 87
1987 "Eye for Eye": Hugo Award, 1988; "Japanese Hugo". 1989
1987 "Hatrack River": Nebula nominee, 1986, Hugo nominee, 1987, World Fantasy Award winner, 1987
1988 Seventh Son: Hugo and WFA nominee, 1988;[72] Mythopoeic Society Award 1988; Locus Award winner, 1988[72]
1989 Red Prophet: Hugo nominee, 1988;[72] Nebula Nominee, 1989;[73] Locus winner, 1989[73]
1991 How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Writer's Digest Books, 90): Hugo Award
1995 Alvin Journeyman: Locus Award winner, 1996[74]
Works[edit]
Main article: Orson Scott Card bibliography
See also[edit]
LDS fiction
Orson Scott Card same-sex marriage controversy

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41.Jump up ^ "NYC-based group calls for boycott of sci-fi movie over author's gay rights views". CBS New York. July 9, 2013.
42.^ Jump up to: a b "Orson Scott Card: State job is not to redefine marriage". Deseret News (original: Mormon Times). July 24, 2008.
43.^ Jump up to: a b "The Hypocrites of Homosexuality". Retrieved 15 Sep 2011.
44.Jump up ^ NOM Latest News. National Organization for Marriage. April 27, 2009
45.Jump up ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/business/media/authors-anti-gay-views-fuel-call-for-boycott-of-enders-game.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0
46.Jump up ^ Homosexual "Marriage" and Civilization (Orson Scott Card) – published in The Rhinoceros Times (republished by The Ornery American.com – Feb 15, 2004)
47.Jump up ^ Flood, Alison. "Outcry over Hamlet novel casting old king as gay pedophile: Publisher showered with complaints over Orson Scott Card's Hamlet's Father" The Guardian 8 September 2011
48.^ Jump up to: a b "''OSC Responds to False Statements about Hamlet's Father'' (Orson Scott Card) – September 2011". Hatrack.com. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
49.Jump up ^ "Review of Hamlet's Father". Publishersweekly.com. 2011-02-28. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
50.Jump up ^ Jase Peeples (February 12, 2013). "DC Comics Responds to Backlash Over Hiring Antigay Writer". The Advocate. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
51.Jump up ^ "Man Of Tomorrow: Superman, Orson Scott Card And Me". NPR. 2013-02-17. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
52.Jump up ^ Posted: 03/05/2013 5:10 pm EST (2013-03-05). "Chris Sprouse, 'Superman' Artist, Drops Orson Scott Card Project After Anti-Gay Controversy". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
53.Jump up ^ Truitt, Brian (February 14, 2013). "Orson Scott Card's Superman comic causes a furor". USA Today. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
54.Jump up ^ Truitt, Brian (March 5, 2013). "Artist leaves Orson Scott Card's Superman comic". USA Today. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
55.Jump up ^ "Three more stores decide not to stock Card’s Superman comic". February 15, 2013. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
56.Jump up ^ Nease, Kristy (February 24, 2013). "Ottawa comic shop pulls books of anti-gay writer". CBC News. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
57.Jump up ^ McMillan, Graeme (March 5, 2013). "Orson Scott Card’s Controversial Superman Story Put on Hold". Wired.com. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
58.Jump up ^ Andy Lewis, Borys Kit (February 20, 2013). "'Ender's Game' Author's Anti-Gay Views Pose Risks for Film". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
59.Jump up ^ Roth, Dan (June 27, 2013). "Ender's Game is going to Comic-Con ... WITHOUT Orson Scott Card". Blastr (SyFy). Retrieved June 27, 2013.
60.Jump up ^ "Activists call for Ender's Game boycott over author's anti-gay views". The Guardian. July 9, 2013.
61.Jump up ^ "Orson Scott Card's antigay views prompt 'Ender's Game' boycott". 11 Jul 2013. Retrieved 20 Jul 2013.
62.Jump up ^ Cheney, Alexandra (July 12, 2013). "Studio comes out against 'Ender's Game' author on gay rights". Wall Street Journal.
63.Jump up ^ Lee, Stephan (2013-07-08). "'Ender's Game' author answers critics: Gay marriage issue is 'moot' | Inside Movies | EW.com". Insidemovies.ew.com. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
64.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (2007-04-29). "Civilization Watch: Don't You Dare Ask for Proof". The Ornery American. Retrieved 2007-05-08.
65.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (2006-01-08). "WorldWatch: Creation and Evolution in the Schools". The Ornery American. Retrieved 2006-10-18.
66.Jump up ^ "Posing as People". Hatrack River Enterprises Inc.
67.Jump up ^ "The Delivery". The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved 2011-03-28.
68.Jump up ^ Locus Publications (2011-01-05). "Locus Online News » Orson Scott Card Suffers Mild Stroke". Locusmag.com. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
69.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (February 17, 2011). "Orson Scott Card: Talents, gifts and intelligence". Deseret News.
70.Jump up ^ "Orson Scott Card's Whitney Award Speech". Mormontimes.com. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
71.Jump up ^ "1984 AML Awards". Association for Mormon Letters. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
72.^ Jump up to: a b c "1988 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
73.^ Jump up to: a b "1989 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
74.Jump up ^ "1996 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
Other sources[clarification needed]Dragons of Darkness, edited by Orson Scott Card, Ace Books, 1981.
Maps in a Mirror, Orson Scott Card, Tor Books, 1990.
Further reading[edit]
Card Catalogue: The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Orson Scott Card, Michael R. Collings, Hypatia Press, 1987, ISBN 0-940841-01-0
In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card, Michael R. Collings, Greenwood Press, 1990, ISBN 0-313-26404-X
The Work of Orson Scott Card: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide, Michael R. Collings and Boden Clarke, 1997
Storyteller: The Official Guide to the Works of Orson Scott Card, Michael R. Collings, Overlook Connection Press, 2001, ISBN 1-892950-26-X
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Orson Scott Card

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Strong Verse, Online poetry magazine published by Card
The Ornery American, Orson Scott Card's political site; includes his column
Interviews[edit]
An audio interview with Orson Scott Card (MP3 format) from Hour 25
Audio interview with Orson Scott Card at National Review Online[dead link]
Interview at SFFWorld.com
"Behind the Scenes": Orson Scott Card on Ender's Game, Marvel.com: "Videos"
Orson Scott Card at Library of Congress Authorities — with 113 catalog records and point of entry to records under other names

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Orson Scott Card

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Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card at BYU Symposium 20080216 closeup.jpg
Card at Life, the Universe, & Everything in 2008.
 
Born
August 24, 1951 (age 62)
Richland, Washington
Residence
Greensboro, North Carolina
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Brigham Young University
University of Utah (M.A.)
University of Notre Dame (1980s graduate student)
Occupation
Author, critic, playwright / script writer, poet, public speaker, essayist, political activist
Prof. of Writing and Literature
(Southern Virginia University, 2005–present)[1]
Film assoc. producer
(Ender's Game, 2013)
 
Notable work(s)
Ender's Game series,
The Tales of Alvin Maker
Style
Science fiction, fantasy, thriller, horror, historical fiction and fantasy and biblical fiction, LDS fiction
Political party
Democrat (U.S.)
Board member of
Public television station UNC-TV (2013–present)[2]
National Organization for Marriage (2009–2013)[3]
Religion
Latter-day Saint (Mormon)[4]
Spouse(s)
Kristine Allen Card
Awards
Selected list:
Hugo Award (Ender's Game, 1986
Speaker for the Dead, 1987
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1991)
Nebula Award (Ender's Game, 1986
Speaker for the Dead, 1987
 "Eye for Eye," 1988)
Signature
Orson-scott-card.jpg

 
 
Website
www.hatrack.com
Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951)[5] 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[6][7] and Nebula Awards,[6][8] making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.[9][10] A film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card co-produced, is set for release in late October 2013 in Europe and on November 1, 2013 in North America.[11][12]
Card is a professor of English at Southern Virginia University,[13] has written two books on the subject of creative writing, hosts writing bootcamps and workshops, and serves as a judge in the Writers of the Future contest.[14] A great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, Card is a practicing member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In addition to producing a large body of fiction works, he has also offered political and social commentary in his columns and other writing. His views on homosexuality,[15] including his opposition to same-sex marriage,[16] have drawn controversy.[17][18]


Contents
  [hide] 1 Early life
2 Fiction 2.1 Science fiction
2.2 Other genres
2.3 Pseudonyms
3 On writing 3.1 Teaching
3.2 Books on writing
3.3 Writers of the Future
3.4 Children's books
4 Columns and op-eds
5 Personal views 5.1 Politics
5.2 Religion
5.3 Views about homosexuality
5.4 Science
6 Personal life
7 Awards
8 Works
9 See also
10 References
11 Further reading
12 External links 12.1 Interviews

Early life[edit]
Card is the son of Willard and Peggy Card, third of six children and the older brother of composer and arranger Arlen Card.[19][20] Card was born in Richland, Washington, and grew up in Santa Clara, California as well as Mesa, Arizona and Orem, Utah. He served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Brazil and graduated from Brigham Young University and the University of Utah; he also spent a year in a Ph.D. program at the University of Notre Dame. Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina,[19] an environment that has played a significant role in Ender's Game and many of his other works.
Fiction[edit]
See also: List of works by Orson Scott Card
Card began his writing career primarily as a poet, studying with Clinton F. Larson at Brigham Young University. During his studies as a theater major, he began "doctoring" scripts, adapting fiction for readers theater production, and finally writing his own one-act and full-length plays, several of which were produced by faculty directors at BYU. He also explored fiction writing, beginning with stories that eventually evolved into The Worthing Saga.
After returning to Provo, Utah from his LDS mission in Brazil, Card started the Utah Valley Repertory Theatre Company, which for two summers produced plays at "the Castle", a Depression-era outdoor amphitheater behind the state psychiatric hospital in Provo; his company's were the first plays ever produced at the Castle. Meanwhile, he took part-time employment as a proofreader at BYU Press, then made the jump to full-time employment as a copy editor. In 1976, in the midst of a paid role performing in the Church's musical celebrating America's Bicentennial, he secured employment as an assistant editor at the Church's official magazine, Ensign, and moved to Salt Lake City. It was while working at Ensign that Card published his first piece of fiction. His short story "Gert Fram" appeared in the July 1977 fine arts issue of that magazine under the pseudonym Byron Walley.
Science fiction[edit]
He wrote the short story "Ender's Game" while working at the BYU press, and submitted it to several publications. The idea for the later novel of the same title came from the short story about a school where boys can fight in space. It was eventually purchased by Ben Bova at Analog Science Fiction and Fact and published in the August 1977 issue. Meanwhile, he started writing half-hour audioplays on the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the New Testament, and other subjects for Living Scriptures in Ogden, Utah; on the basis of that continuing contract, some freelance editing work, and a novel contract for Hot Sleep and A Planet Called Treason, he left Ensign and began supporting his family as a freelancer.
He completed his master's degree in English at the University of Utah in 1981 and began a doctoral program at the University of Notre Dame, but the recession of the early 1980s caused the flow of new book contracts to temporarily dry up. He returned to full-time employment as the book editor for Compute! magazine in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1983. In October of that year, a new contract for the Alvin Maker "trilogy" (now up to six books) allowed him to return to freelancing.
Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead were both awarded the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, making Card the only author (as of 2013) to win both of science fiction's top prizes in consecutive years. Card continued the series with Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, "First Meetings in the Enderverse", Shadow of the Giant, Shadows in Flight, the 2007 release of A War of Gifts, and the 2008 release of Ender in Exile, a book that takes place after Ender's Game and before Speaker for the Dead. Card has also announced his plan to write Shadows Alive, a book that connects the "Shadow" series and "Speaker" series together. In 2008 Card announced that Ender's Game would be made into a movie, but that he did not have a director lined up. (Wolfgang Petersen had previously been scheduled to direct the movie subsequently moved on to other projects.) It was to be produced by Chartoff Productions, and Card was writing the screenplay himself.[21] Other works include the alternate histories The Tales of Alvin Maker, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, The Homecoming Saga, and Hidden Empire, a story about a near-future civil war in the United States, based on the Xbox Live Arcade video game Shadow Complex. He collaborated with Star Wars artist Doug Chiang on Robota and with Kathryn H. Kidd on Lovelock.
Other genres[edit]
He has since branched out into other areas of fiction with novels such as Lost Boys, Treasure Box and Enchantment. Other works include the novelization of the James Cameron film The Abyss, and the comic book Ultimate Iron Man for Marvel Comics' Ultimate Marvel Universe series. Outside the world of published fiction, Card contributed dialog to at least three video games: Loom, The Secret of Monkey Island and The Dig in the early 1990s.[22]
In 2000, Card published the first novel in The Women of Genesis series. This series explores the lives of the principal women mentioned in the first book of the Bible and includes Sarah (2000), Rebekah (2002), and Rachel and Leah (2004).
In the fall of 2005, Card also launched Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show.[23] He edited the first two issues, but found that the demands of teaching, writing, and directing plays for his local church theater group made it impossible to respond to writers' submissions in a timely manner; former Card student and experienced freelance writer and editor Edmund R. Schubert took over as editor on June 1, 2006.
The dialog and screenplay (but not the story) for the Xbox video game Advent Rising was written by Card and Cameron Dayton.[24]
In 2008, Card's novella Hamlet's Father, a retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet, was published in the anthology The Ghost Quartet (Tor Books). The work re-interpreted all of the characters' personalities and motivations.
Pseudonyms[edit]
Over the years Orson Scott Card has used at least seven pseudonyms.
The names Frederick Bliss and P.Q. Gump were used by Card when he was asked to write an overview of Mormon playwrights "Mormon Shakeſpears: A Study of Contemporary Mormon Theatre" for Spring 1976 issue of Sunstone magazine. According to Card he used these pseudonyms because the article included a brief reference to himself and his play "Stone Tables".[25]
The name Byron Walley was used by Card on his first published piece of fiction "Gert Fram" which appeared in the July 1977 fine arts issue of Ensign magazine. According to Card he used this name because he had a non-fiction article, "Family Art", a poem, "Looking West", and a short play, "The Rag Mission", appearing in the same issue.[25] Card also used the name Byron Walley in stories he published in Friend magazine, New Era magazine and in the anthology Dragons of Darkness. Stories by Byron Walley include: "Gert Fram", Ensign magazine, July 1977; "Bicicleta", Friend magazine, October 1977; "The Best Family Home Evening Ever", Friend magazine, January 1978; "Billy's Box", Friend magazine, February 1978; "I Think Mom and Dad Are Going Crazy, Jerry", New Era magazine, May 1979; and "Middle Woman", Dragons of Darkness, Ace Books, 1982.
The name Brian Green was also used by Card in the July 1977 fine arts issue of Ensign magazine. He used this name for his short play "The Rag Mission" because he had three other pieces appearing in the same issue.[25]
The name Dinah Kirkham was used to write the short story "The Best Day", in 1983.[26]
The name Noam D. Pellume was used by Card for his short story "Damn Fine Novel" which appeared in the October 1989 issue of The Green Pages.[27]
Card wrote the novel Zanna's Gift (2004) under the pen name Scott Richards, saying, "I was trying to establish a separate identity in the marketplace, but for various reasons the marketing strategy didn't work as we'd hoped."[28]
On writing[edit]
Teaching[edit]

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In 2005, Card accepted a permanent appointment as "distinguished professor" at Southern Virginia University in Buena Vista, Virginia, a small liberal arts college run according to the principles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Card has cited his frustration with dismal teaching methodology for creative writing in most universities as a reason for accepting this position, along with his desire to teach the techniques of effective fiction writing to writers whose values are more congruent with his own.[13] Card has worked closely with colleagues to develop ways to educate aspiring writers and has published two books on the subject. He was eager for the opportunity to apply these techniques in a university environment—his assorted workshops did not allow the follow-through he desired. After being deeply moved by stories of his students' parents in some of their essays, he decided to stop teaching regularly at the university to spend time with his youngest child who still lives at home.[29] Card returned to teaching for the spring semester of 2009.
Card has run an annual, one-week class that consists of an intensive critique workshop for aspiring writers called "Literary Boot Camp" and a two day workshop called the "Writer's Workshop."[30]
Books on writing[edit]
Card has written two books on the subject of creative writing – Characters and Viewpoint, published in 1988, and How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy, published in 1990. He was also a co-writer for How to Write a Million (though his contribution is actually a reprint of an earlier work).
Card also offered advice about writing in an interview in Leading Edge #23 in 1991.
Writers of the Future[edit]
Card serves as a judge in Writers of the Future,[14] a science fiction and fantasy story contest for amateur writers. It originated in the early 1980s by L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer and the founder of the the Church of Scientology, and continues to be funded and organized by Author Services Inc., an entity that manages Hubbard's literary work.
Children's books[edit]
Card won the ALA Margaret Edwards Award in 2008 for his contribution in writing for teens, selected by a panel of YA librarians.[31] "What have I done that made some wonderfully deluded people think that I should get the [award] for lifetime achievement in writing young adult fiction?", he asked in his address, and asserted that "There is no such thing as children's literature." Furthermore:[32]

I have not worked with YA editors; my work has never been marketed that way until Tor put a YA cover and a new ISBN on Ender’s Game — fifteen years after the book first came out, and long after it had become popular with young readers. Ender's Game was written with no concessions to young readers. My protagonists were children, but the book was definitely not aimed at kids. I was perfectly aware that the rule of thumb for children’s literature is that the protagonist must be a couple of years older than the target audience. You want ten-year-old readers, you have a twelve-year-old hero.

At the beginning of the book, Ender is six. Who, exactly, is the target audience?
Columns and op-eds[edit]
Card's column "Uncle Orson Reviews Everything," published at the Greensboro Rhinoceros Times, featured personal reviews of movies, books, and restaurants in the greater Greensboro area, in addition to a variety of other topics.[33] The column also later appears on his website, Hatrack River. Since 2008 Card has authored a column for the Mormon Times.
Personal views[edit]
Over his career, Card has been outspoken in various venues.
Politics[edit]
In a 2009 article denouncing the treatment former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin had received from "the liberal media," Card declared, "And yet, there remains this: I disagree with her on at least half the issues that matter to her. After all, even though I'm a moral conservative, I am a Democrat and for good reason, as long as you define 'Democrat' the way it was defined in 1977."[34]
Early in the 2008 presidential campaign he had labeled himself a "Moderate Democrat" and lamented, "I am a Democrat, and wish fervently that my party would nominate someone I could vote for." At the same time he expressed keen dismay at "Mitt Romney's tough stand on illegal immigration" and its evident appeal to Republican voters. He said Mexican immigration, in particular, was "an issue that could well destroy the Republican Party for years to come."[35] On the day before the election, he called Republican John McCain "the centrist candidate I support" although "I wanted very badly for Obama to be a candidate I could vote for, and was sorry when he turned out not to be." He expressed agreement with a friend's comment on Barack Obama, that "even though I don't want him to win, I'm so happy that a black candidate was nominated by a major party. It's about time."[36]
During the 2012 presidential primary campaign, Card wrote: "There are a lot of Republicans who really, really don't want Mitt Romney as their candidate.... A lot of Republicans hate Romney because he's Mormon, and they've been taught by their ministers that Mormons are an evil cult. This is absurdly false, but it's a serious factor in Republican politics. They don't dare admit their Mormon-hatred openly, because the Republican Party needs the Mormon vote the way Democrats need and count on the Jewish vote—a small and much-maligned religious minority, but one that votes as a bloc and contributes time and money far beyond their numbers.... Romney probably won't be and shouldn't be the Republican nominee, because too many people on the Left and the Right just can't get over his being Mormon."[37]
In the same December 2011 column, Card wrote, "to my own disgust, I find myself right now leaning toward Newt Gingrich, a man who, as a human being, in my opinion does not measure up to either Romney or Obama. But I think he'd make a better President than either." Card said that he was particularly impressed by how effective Gingrich had been in helping balance the federal budget during the Clinton administration, and that "despite [Gingrich's] negatives, there is nobody smarter or more capable or with a better record of good government seeking the office of President right now."[37]
In a controversial August 2013 essay that he described as "an experiment in fictional writing," Card imagines a future in which President Barack Obama rules as a "Hitler- or Stalin-style dictator" with his own national police force of "young out-of-work urban men." Obama and his wife Michelle would amend the U.S. Constitution to allow presidents to remain in power for life, as in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Hitler's Germany.[38][39]
Religion[edit]
Card's immersion in the Mormon faith has been an important facet of his life from early on. He is a great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, an important leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, and all of Card's ancestors from at least three generations have been members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). His ancestors include several other figures notable in the LDS Church, including the Cardston colony founder Charles Ora Card. As such, his faith has been a source of inspiration and influence for both his writing and his personal views.[20]
Views about homosexuality[edit]
Card publicly declared his disapproval of same-sex sexual relations and of same-sex marriage, and has authored various articles pertaining to this.[40][41] He has claimed that the term "homophobe", with which he is sometimes labeled, is used in order to imply that opponents of the "homosexual activist agenda" are mentally ill.[42] In a 1990 essay for Sunstone magazine, he wrote that the laws prohibiting homosexual behavior should "remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society." In May 2013, Card made a statement saying that he no longer advocates this, and says that the 1990 stance must be seen in the context of the times (such laws were still deemed constitutional at the time) and the conservative Mormon audience to whom his essay was addressed. "[N]ow that the law has changed," Card states, "I have no interest in criminalizing homosexual acts and would never call for such a thing, any more than I wanted such laws enforced back when they were still on the books."[43]
In a 2008 essay opposing same-sex marriage, Card stated that he regarded any government that would attempt to recognize same-sex marriage a "mortal enemy" that he would act to destroy: "If the Constitution is defined in such a way as to destroy the privileged position of marriage, it is that insane Constitution, not marriage, that will die."[42] In 2009 he became a member of the board of directors of the National Organization for Marriage, a group that campaigns against same-sex marriage.[44] Card resigned from the Board in mid-2013.[45]
Card has also voiced his opinion that paraphilia and homosexuality are linked. In a 2004 essay entitled Homosexual 'Marriage' and Civilization, Card wrote: "The dark secret of homosexual society—the one that dares not speak its name—is how many homosexuals first entered into that world through a disturbing seduction or rape or molestation or abuse, and how many of them yearn to get out of the homosexual community and live normally."[46]
Card's 1980 novel Songmaster depicts a homosexual relationship between a young man and a 15-year-old castrato. Card described this ephebophilic relationship as "a mutually self-destructive path" and stated: "I was not trying to show that homosexuality was 'beautiful' or 'natural'—in fact, sex of any kind is likely to be 'beautiful' only to the participants, and it is hard to make a case for the naturalness of such an obviously counter-evolutionary trend as same-sex mating."[43]
Additionally, in Card's 2011 novella Hamlet's Father, which re-imagines the backstory of Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Card was accused of directly trying to link the king's pedophilia with homosexuality. The novella prompted public outcry and its publishers were inundated with complaints.[47][48] The trade journal Publisher's Weekly criticized Card's "flimsy novella" and stated that the main purpose of it was to attempt to link homosexuality to pedophilia.[49] Card responded to the claim: "...[T]here is no link whatsoever between homosexuality and pedophilia in this book. Hamlet's father, in the book, is a pedophile, period. I don't show him being even slightly attracted to adults of either sex. It is the reviewer, not me, who has asserted this link, which I would not and did not make."[48]
In 2013, Card's views caused further controversy when he was selected as one of several recurring guest authors for DC Comics's new Adventures of Superman comic book series,[50] with critics of his hiring claiming his views conflicted with the ideals of Superman.[51][52] The LGBT activist website AllOut.org began an online petition asking DC Comics to drop Card from the project. DC Comics responded with a statement that it supported freedom of expression and that the personal views of individuals associated with the company were not the views of the company itself.[53] In March 2013, illustrator Chris Sprouse left the project due to the media attention[54] and some comic book stores announced a boycott.[55][56] DC Comics then announced that it had put Card's story on hold indefinitely and substituted it with a story written by Jeff Parker.[57]
One studio executive expressed the opinion that Card's involvement in promotion for the movie adaptation of Ender's Game could be a liability for the film,[58] which Blastr writer Dan Roth speculated as the reason Card did not take part in the Ender's Game film panel at San Diego Comic Con in July 2013 with the other principal cast and crewmembers of the film.[59] An LGBT group, Geeks OUT!, proposed a boycott of the film due to Card's anti-gay views.[60][61] The movie studio behind the film, Lions Gate, issued a statement saying that the company is "proud to have recognized same-sex unions and domestic partnerships within its employee benefits policies for many years” and that they “obviously do not agree with the personal views of Orson Scott Card."[62]
On July 8, 2013, one week after the U.S. Supreme Court issued rulings in two cases that were widely interpreted as favoring recognition of same-sex marriages, Card wrote in Entertainment Weekly that the gay marriage issue is "moot" due to the Supreme Court's decision on DOMA.[63]
Science[edit]
Although he supports government-funded research into alternative energy sources and the phasing out of fossil fuel use, Card has also frequently criticized precipitous action on global warming, and has suggested that scientific evidence against global warming is suppressed because global warming has become an academic orthodoxy that discourages opposing evidence.[64] His short story "Angles" also features scientists fearing to pursue research because it would run counter to scientific dogma. Card has also said that opposition to intelligent design is based on scientific dogma rather than a substantive assessment of the evidence. He also stated he believed the intelligent design movement will never be supported by genuine scientific evidence.[65]
Personal life[edit]

 

 Card (foreground) signing autographs at New York Comic Con in 2008
Card and his wife Kristine have had five children, each named after one or more authors he and his wife admire. Their children's names are Michael Geoffrey (Geoffrey Chaucer), Emily Janice (Emily Brontë and Emily Dickinson), Charles Benjamin (Charles Dickens), Zina Margaret (Margaret Mitchell) and Erin Louisa (Louisa May Alcott). Charles, who had cerebral palsy, died shortly after his 17th birthday and their daughter Erin died the day she was born.[19] Card and his wife live with their youngest child, Zina, in Greensboro, North Carolina.[19]
The life of their son Charles influenced some of Card's fiction, most notably the Homecoming series, Lost Boys and Folk of the Fringe. Their daughter, Emily, along with two other writers, adapted Card's short stories "Clap Hands and Sing", "Lifeloop" and "A Sepulchre of Songs" for the stage in Posing as People.[66]
In 2008, he appeared in the short film The Delivery, which starred his daughter Emily. He plays an author reading an audiobook in this film, which won First Place in Fantasy at Dragon*Con Film Festival. He wrote an original story, "The Emperor of the Air," specifically for the short film by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki.[67]
Card is an avid fan of the science fiction television series Firefly and makes an appearance in the documentary Done the Impossible about Firefly fandom.
Card suffered a mild stroke on January 1, 2011, and was briefly hospitalized. He reported expecting to make a full recovery despite impairment of his left hand.[68][69]
Awards[edit]
The ALA Margaret A. Edwards Award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work for "significant and lasting contributions to young adult literature". Card won the annual award in 2008, citing Ender's Game (1985), which inaugurated the science fiction Ender Saga, and Ender's Shadow (1999), the so-called parallel novel featuring another boy in the Battle School. According to the citation, the two boys' "experiences echo those of teens, beginning as children navigating in an adult world and growing into a state of greater awareness of themselves, their communities and the larger universe."[31] In the same year, Card won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Mormon writers (Whitney Awards).[70]
He has won numerous awards for single works, too.
1978 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer from the World Science Fiction Convention, citing the "Ender's Game" novelette
1981 Songmaster: Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Award, 1981
1984 Saints: Book of the Year by the Association for Mormon Letters[71]
1985 Ender's Game: Nebula Award, 1985;[8] Hugo Award, 1986;[6] Hamilton-Brackett Award, 1986; SF Chronicle Readers Poll, 1986
1986 Speaker for the Dead; Nebula Award, 1986,[6] Hugo Award, 1987;[7] Locus Award, 1987;[6] SF Chronicle Readers Poll Award 87
1987 "Eye for Eye": Hugo Award, 1988; "Japanese Hugo". 1989
1987 "Hatrack River": Nebula nominee, 1986, Hugo nominee, 1987, World Fantasy Award winner, 1987
1988 Seventh Son: Hugo and WFA nominee, 1988;[72] Mythopoeic Society Award 1988; Locus Award winner, 1988[72]
1989 Red Prophet: Hugo nominee, 1988;[72] Nebula Nominee, 1989;[73] Locus winner, 1989[73]
1991 How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Writer's Digest Books, 90): Hugo Award
1995 Alvin Journeyman: Locus Award winner, 1996[74]
Works[edit]
Main article: Orson Scott Card bibliography
See also[edit]
LDS fiction
Orson Scott Card same-sex marriage controversy

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Other sources[clarification needed]Dragons of Darkness, edited by Orson Scott Card, Ace Books, 1981.
Maps in a Mirror, Orson Scott Card, Tor Books, 1990.
Further reading[edit]
Card Catalogue: The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Orson Scott Card, Michael R. Collings, Hypatia Press, 1987, ISBN 0-940841-01-0
In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card, Michael R. Collings, Greenwood Press, 1990, ISBN 0-313-26404-X
The Work of Orson Scott Card: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide, Michael R. Collings and Boden Clarke, 1997
Storyteller: The Official Guide to the Works of Orson Scott Card, Michael R. Collings, Overlook Connection Press, 2001, ISBN 1-892950-26-X
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Orson Scott Card

Library resources

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Official website
Orson Scott Card at the Internet Book List
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Strong Verse, Online poetry magazine published by Card
The Ornery American, Orson Scott Card's political site; includes his column
Interviews[edit]
An audio interview with Orson Scott Card (MP3 format) from Hour 25
Audio interview with Orson Scott Card at National Review Online[dead link]
Interview at SFFWorld.com
"Behind the Scenes": Orson Scott Card on Ender's Game, Marvel.com: "Videos"
Orson Scott Card at Library of Congress Authorities — with 113 catalog records and point of entry to records under other names

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Osmond in 2010
 
Background information

Birth name
Donald Clark Osmond
Born
December 9, 1957 (age 55)
Origin
Ogden, Utah, U.S.
Genres
Vocal, pop rock, R&B, bubblegum, blue-eyed soul, comedy, musical theatre
Occupations
Singer, songwriter, musician, actor, television host, dancer, radio personality, author
Years active
1963–present
Labels
Universal
Associated acts
Marie Osmond, The Osmonds, Dweezil Zappa
Website
Official website
Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond (born December 9, 1957) is an American singer, musician, actor, dancer, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer and author. In the mid-1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as The Osmonds, on the long-running variety program, The Andy Williams Show. Donny went solo in the early 1970s, covering such hits as "Go Away Little Girl" and "Puppy Love".
For over thirty-five years, he and younger sister Marie have gained fame as Donny & Marie, partly due to the success of their 1976–79 self-titled variety series, which aired on ABC. The duo also did a 1998–2000 talk show and have been headlining in Las Vegas since 2008. Between a highly successful teen career in the 1970s, and his rebirth in the 1990s, Osmond's career was stymied during the 1980s by what some have perceived as his "boy scout" image. Osmond stated on the May 1, 2009 Larry King Live show that longtime friend Michael Jackson suggested he change his name to boost his image. Osmond's agent even suggested that spreading false rumors about drug arrest charges might recharge his career. Osmond felt such allegations would have familial ramifications, and could not reconcile how lying to create a nefarious drug image could be explained to his children, nieces and nephews. In 1989, Osmond had two big-selling recordings, the first of which, "Soldier of Love", was initially credited to a "mystery artist" by some radio stations.
Starting in July 1992, Osmond played Joseph in the Elgin Theatre's Toronto production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The musical then toured North America until 1998. Creator Andrew Lloyd Webber, impressed by Osmond's talents and the show's successful six-year run, chose him for the 1999 film version.
In 2009, Osmond won the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Early life
2 Music career 2.1 Teen idol: 1971–1978
2.2 Comeback: 1989–1990
2.3 Current music career: 1991–2010
2.4 Donny & Marie in Las Vegas
3 Film, radio and television 3.1 Hosting 3.1.1 Donny & Marie
3.1.2 Other hosting opportunities
3.1.3 Radio
3.1.4 Music
3.2 Musical theater
3.3 Film
3.4 Dancing with the Stars
4 Other projects
5 Image struggle
6 Personal life
7 Discography
8 References
9 External links
Early life[edit]
Osmond was born in Ogden, Utah, the seventh son of Olive May Osmond (née Davis) and George Virl Osmond. He is the brother of Alan, Jay, Jimmy, Merrill, Wayne, Marie, Tom, and Virl Osmond. Alan, Jay, Merrill, Wayne, and Donny were members of the popular singing group The Osmonds (also known as The Osmond Brothers which later included tracks with youngest brother Jimmy as well). Donny was raised as a Mormon in Utah along with his siblings. Osmond later traced his family ancestry back to Merthyr Tydfil in Wales; his journey was documented in a BBC Wales program, Donny Osmond Coming Home.[1] On the BBC's The One Show, a plaque was unveiled in the town to commemorate 'the ancestors of Donny Osmond'.
Music career[edit]
Teen idol: 1971–1978[edit]
The father of Andy Williams, Jay, saw the Osmond Brothers (Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay) perform on a Disneyland televised special as a barbershop quartet. In short order, the group was invited to audition for The Andy Williams Show. Williams initially had reservations about featuring children on the program, however, encouraged by his father to try them out, they proved in a short period of time to become an asset to the program, and soon became regulars on the show and gained popularity quickly. Donny made his debut on the show at the age of 5 singing "You Are My Sunshine". The brothers continued to perform on the show throughout the 1960s along with a visit from their sister Marie. In the early 1970s, the Osmonds, via recording and virtually constant touring, sold over 80 million records in a single 12-month period, making them the most successful, and fatigued, of the early Seventies touring groups.
Donny became a teen idol in the early 1970s as a solo singer, while continuing to sing with his older brothers. He, Bobby Sherman, and David Cassidy were the biggest "Cover Boy" pop stars for Tiger Beat magazine in the early 1970s.[2] His first solo hit was a cover of Roy Orbison's 1958 recording of "Sweet and Innocent", which peaked at No. 7 in the U.S. in 1971. Donny's follow-ups "Go Away Little Girl" (1971) (U.S. #1), "Puppy Love" (U.S. #3), and "Hey Girl/I Knew You When" (U.S. #9) (1972) vaulted him into international fame, further advanced by his 20 November 1972 appearance on the Here's Lucy show, where he sang "Too Young" to Lucille Ball's niece, played by Eve Plumb, and sang with Lucie Arnaz ("I'll Never Fall in Love Again").
Comeback: 1989–1990[edit]
In the 1980s, Osmond re-invented himself as a solo vocal artist and abandoned the earlier television show image crafted to appeal to young viewers. He made an unlikely appearance as one of several celebrities and unknowns auditioning to sing for guitarist Jeff Beck in the video for Beck's 1985 single "Ambitious", followed in 1986 by an equally unlikely cameo in the animated Luis Cardenas music video "Runaway".[3] He spent several years as a performer, before hiring the services of music and entertainment guru Steven Machat, who got Osmond together with Peter Gabriel to see whether Machat and Gabriel could turn the TV Osmond's image into a contemporary young pop act. They succeeded, returning Osmond to the US charts in 1989 with the Billboard Hot 100 No. 2 song "Soldier of Love" and its top twenty follow-up "Sacred Emotion". The campaign to market "Soldier Of Love" received considerable airplay with the singer being presented as a "mystery artist" before his identity was later revealed.[4] Launching an extensive tour in support of the Eyes Don't Lie record, he enlisted Earth Wind & Fire and Kenny Loggins guitarist Dick Smith along with keyboardist Marc Jackson.
Donny was often reluctant to perform his earliest songs, in particular "Go Away Little Girl", but was convinced to sing the song live for KLOS-FM's Mark & Brian Christmas Show on December 21, 1990. Now he embraces his initial recording period with fondness, and recognizes that his many fans around the world are always excited and appreciative to hear his earliest chart successes.
Current music career: 1991–2010[edit]
Osmond was the guest vocalist on Dweezil Zappa's star-studded version of the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" which appeared on Zappa's 1991 album Confessions. The song also included guitar solos from Zakk Wylde, Steve Lukather, Warren DeMartini, Nuno Bettencourt, and Tim Pierce. Osmond sang "No One Has To Be Alone", but the song was heard at the end of the film The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water. He also sang "I'll Make a Man Out of You" for Disney's Mulan.[5]
In the 2000s, he released a Christmas album, an album of his favorite Broadway songs, and a compilation of popular love songs. In 2004, he returned to the UK Top 10 for the first time as a solo artist since 1973, with the George Benson-sampling "Breeze On By", co-written with former teen idol Gary Barlow, from the 1990s UK boy band Take That, reaching number 8.


Donny & Marie in Las Vegas[edit]
Following Marie's stint on Dancing with the Stars in 2007, the pair teamed up for a limited engagement in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Las Vegas. Beginning September 2008, Donny and Marie began playing the 750-seat showroom at the Flamingo Hotel. "Donny & Marie" is a 90-minute show. The singing siblings are backed by eight dancers and a nine piece band. Donny and Marie sing together at the beginning and end of the show, and have solo segments in between. Donny and the show earned three of the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Best of Las Vegas Awards in 2012 including "Best Show", "Best All-Around Performer" (Donny & Marie), and "Best Singer".[6] Donny earned "Best Singer" for a second time in the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Best of Las Vegas Awards in 2013.[7]
Film, radio and television[edit]
Hosting[edit]
Donny & Marie[edit]
In the mid-1970s, he and Marie co-hosted The Mike Douglas Show for a week, and were later offered a show of their own, The Donny & Marie Show, a television variety series which aired on ABC between 1976 and 1979. Donny felt that their program should have been continued for at least another television season, and has expressed regret that the show was cancelled, as opposed to them deciding when to bring the show to conclusion.
Donny and Marie also co-hosted a talk show together 20 years later. Though ratings were high[citation needed] and they were nominated for an Emmy award[8] for best talk show, the series was ultimately canceled. In a 1999 episode featuring Jefferson Starship promoting their album Windows of Heaven, the hosts performed a rendition of "Volunteers" live with the band.
Other hosting opportunities[edit]
Osmond went on to host Pyramid, a syndicated version of the Dick Clark-hosted television game show that ran two seasons in the US from 2002 to 2004, and a British version of Pyramid on Challenge in 2007.
Osmond returned to ABC as host of The Great American Dream Vote, a prime-time reality/game show that debuted in March 2007. After earning lackluster ratings in its first two episodes, the program was cancelled.[9]
Osmond hosted the British version of the game show Identity on BBC Two during the daytime.
On April 11, 2008, Osmond also hosted the 2008 Miss USA pageant along with his sister Marie from Las Vegas.
Osmond appeared on Entertainment Tonight as a commentator covering the ABC show Dancing with the Stars during his sister Marie's run as a contestant on the 5th season of the American version of the popular show in Fall of 2007. He was seen at week 7 of the competition in tears in the audience watching Marie do a rumba after his and Marie's father died.
Radio[edit]

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In January 2010 it was announced that Osmond would host his own syndicated radio show in a deal with McVay Syndication and Citadel Media. Versions of The Donny Osmond Show now air across America, Canada, Australia and the UK.
The show is already rating No. 1 in numerous markets and is currently one of the fastest growing radio propositions.
The UK edition of the show is co-produced by London-based radio production & syndication company Blue Revolution. Through this partnership the first UK network to carry The Donny Osmond Show is Celador-owned The Breeze, which has outlets in Portsmouth, Southampton, Isle of Wight, Winchester, Bridgwater & West Somerset, Bristol, Bath and Warminster. As of January 2012, The Donny Osmond Show is no longer broadcasting on The Breeze.
From April 2012 Smooth Radio carried The Donny Osmond Show on Sunday evenings. It aired until April 2013 when Donny Osmand decided to leave the station.
Music[edit]
Osmond's name was used in the lyrics of Alice Cooper's song "Department of Youth" near the end. Cooper asks the kids doing the background vocals "who gave them the power", where the kids reply "Donny Osmond". Cooper then responds with an outraged "What?"
Musical theater[edit]
His first foray into Broadway musical theater was the lead role in a revival of the 1904 George M. Cohan show Little Johnny Jones. Osmond replaced another former teen idol, David Cassidy, who left the show while it was on its pre-Broadway tour.[10] After 29 previews and only 1 performance, the show closed on March 21, 1982.[11]
Osmond found success in musical theater through much of the 1990s when he starred in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for over 2,000 performances. During his performances for the musical, he suffered from social anxiety disorder, which caused him to feel light-headed and extremely nervous during his performances.[12] In 1997, Osmond left his starring role in the tour to participate with his family in the cast of the Hill Cumorah Pageant.[13][14]
He returned to Broadway on September 19, 2006, in the role of Gaston in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. He was scheduled to perform for nine weeks, but due to popular demand he extended his run through December 24. Liz Smith of the New York Post wrote, "I am here to tell you he is charmingly campy, good-looking and grand as the villain 'Gaston', patterned after our old friend Elvis", and noting "Donny is divine". On July 29, 2007, Osmond played Gaston again for the final performance of Beauty and the Beast.[15]
Donny and his sister Marie starred in a holiday production called Donny & Marie – A Broadway Christmas, which was originally scheduled to play on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre from December 9–19, 2010. The show was then extended till December 30, 2010 and again till January 2, 2011.[16][17][18] Donny & Marie – Christmas in Chicago played the Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre in Chicago from December 6–24, 2011. It was similar to the 2010 Broadway show.
Film[edit]
In the animated television series Johnny Bravo, Osmond voiced himself as a recurring character. He has also done guest spots on numerous other television shows such as Friends, Diagnosis: Murder, and Hannah Montana. He also appeared in a Pepsi Twist commercial during the Super Bowl with his sister, Marie, and Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. In 1982, he co-starred with Priscilla Barnes and Joan Collins in the television movie The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch for Aaron Spelling.
In 1998, Donny Osmond was chosen to be the singing voice of Shang in Walt Disney's Mulan. He sang "I'll Make a Man Out of You".
Also in 1999, he starred in the movie version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Andrew Lloyd Webber's request who said, "to me there is no better selection". In addition to playing the role of Joseph.
In 2002 he sang 'No One Has To Be Alone' for the end credits of The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water.
Osmond remarked in an interview recently that with his movie appearance on College Road Trip and upcoming appearances on two Disney Channel shows that he would coming about full circle since he and his family were discovered by Walt Disney.
Osmond appears in the music video of "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "White & Nerdy". The song is a parody of Chamillionaire's "Ridin'"; Osmond's role is analogous to that of Krayzie Bone's role in the original video. Yankovic asked Osmond to appear because "if you have to have a white and nerdy icon in your video, like who else do you go for?"[19]
Dancing with the Stars[edit]
Osmond and professional Kym Johnson were paired for the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars; he participated in the show to prove he was a better dancer than his sister. It was very difficult for him to manage to get to rehearsals and host his show in Las Vegas with sister Marie. For the first week, the two were assigned to dance a Foxtrot and a 30-second Salsa. His Foxtrot was said to be "too theatrical" and was scored 20/30 from the judges. He however managed to maintain a good score when his Salsa scored 10 points and was safe that week. He danced a Jive the following week which was guest judged by Baz Luhrman. He scored 25 and was scored 2nd place, called first to be safe. That following week he danced a Rumba and scored 21.
After his comments, he "attacked" openly homosexual judge Bruno Tonioli, first kissing him, before embracing him and tipping him back in a mock-passionate move after Bruno called Donny's dance "a bit airy fairy". The following week introduced 4 new dances including the Charleston which he danced and scored 24. That following week, the two danced an Argentine Tango which scored 29/30, the highest scored dance to date until it was beaten by then leader topping scorer and future runner-up Mýa and her 70s-themed Samba. He had also received that week's encore.
Following that week, Osmond and Johnson danced a train-station themed Jitterbug and was scored a 24. He then danced a Mambo against all couples and was eliminated 6th receiving 7 points for a total of 31/40. The following week, he danced a Quickstep which he quotes "was one of the worst moments of my life" and scored 24 and a Team Tango along with Joanna Krupa and Kelly Osbourne and received 28/30 and the encore.
In the 8th week of competition, Osmond was required to dance a Ballroom and decade-themed Latin dance. His Ballroom Viennese Waltz received 26 but his 1980s themed Paso Doble received 24 being quoted by judge Len Goodman as "the most scariest, bizarre Paso Doble we've ever seen" being awarded last place on the judges' leaderboard for the first time. Following that week, he danced a Tango and got advice from past runner-up Gilles Marini. He got tangled in Johnson's dress and received 21 and saying the cause was that "I saw Marie". He then danced a samba to a song originally recorded by his brothers and himself called "One Bad Apple", receiving 26 and a Jitterbug scored 27. He once again was scored last place.
For the finals week, he danced a Cha-Cha-Cha (27), a Megamix dance alongside Mya and Kelly Osbourne (28), the only perfect-scoring Freestyle (30) and a repeat of his Argentine Tango (30) and won the competition. As he accepted his trophy, he hugged fellow finalist Mya and grabbed his wife, Debbie, and his sister, Marie, on stage.

Week
Dance & Song
Carrie Ann's
 Score
Len/Baz's
 Score
Bruno's
 Score
Result
1 Foxtrot/"All That Jazz" 7 6 7 N/A
1 Salsa Relay/"Get Busy" Awarded 10 Points Safe
2 Jive/"Secret Agent Man" 8 9 8 Safe
3 Rumba/"Endless Love" 7 7 7 Safe
4 Charleston/"Put a Lid on It" 8 8 8 Safe
5 Argentine Tango/"Tango a Pugliese" 10 9 10 Safe
5 Hustle Group Dance/"Do the Hustle" N/A N/A N/A N/A
6 Jitterbug/"Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" 8 8 8 Safe
6 Mambo Marathon/"Ran Kan Kan" Awarded 7 Points Safe
7 Quickstep/"Sing, Sing, Sing" 8 8 8 Safe
7 Team Tango/"You Give Love a Bad Name" 9 9 10 Safe
8 Viennese Waltz/"You Don't Know Me" 9 8 9 Safe
8 1980s Paso Doble/"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" 8 8 8 Safe
9 Tango/"Black and Gold" 7 7 7 Safe
9 Samba/"One Bad Apple" 8 9 9 Safe
9 Jitterbug/"Jump Shout Boogie" 9 9 9 Safe
10 Cha-Cha-Cha/"September" 9 9 9 Winner
10 Megamix/"You and Me", "Whenever, Wherever", "Maniac" Awarded 28 Points Winner
10 Freestyle/"Back in Business" 10 10 10 Winner
10 Argentine Tango/"Tango a Pugliese" Awarded 30 Points Winner
Other projects[edit]
In his youth, Donny held a ham radio license, KA7EVD.[20]
Osmond appeared in the North American version commercial for the PlayStation 2 video game Buzz! the Mega Quiz.
Donny and Marie began a six-month run as the new headlining act at the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas, on September 9, 2008. On October 27, 2008, the Flamingo announced that Donny and Marie's contract had been extended until October 2010. Then on July 30, 2009, Donny & Marie made an announcement on NBC's Today Show that they had again extended their contract to go until October 2012.
On December 15, 2009, he appeared on The Paul O'Grady Show, along with his sister, Marie, being interviewed by the Channel 4 resident dinner lady, Susan.
Image struggle[edit]
Osmond states that he has had a tremendous public image struggle since Donny & Marie ended in 1979.[21] He has been described as 'unhip',[22] as a 'boy scout', and has been the butt of innumerable jokes, including appearing in the video "White & Nerdy" at the request of his friend, Yankovic, since he was 'the whitest guy [he] could think of'. His image has seemed such a liability that one professional publicist even suggested that Osmond purposefully get arrested for drug possession in order to change his image.[23] In March 2010, Osmond criticized Lady Gaga and Beyoncé for using profanity and sex in their Telephone video.[24]
Personal life[edit]
Osmond married Debra Glenn (born in Billings, Montana on February 26, 1959) on May 8, 1978, in the Salt Lake Temple at age 20. Together they have five sons: Donald Clark Osmond, Jr. (b. 1979), Jeremy James Osmond (b. 1981), Brandon Michael Osmond (b. 1985), Christopher Glenn Osmond (b. 1990), and Joshua Davis Osmond (b. 1998).[25]
Osmond became a grandfather on August 21, 2005, when his second son Jeremy and daughter-in-law Melisa (married 2002) had a son, Dylan James Osmond. His granddaughter Emery Anne was born on February 25, 2008. Osmond's third son Brandon married Shelby Hansen in 2008. Their son, Daxton Michael was born on June 28, 2010. Brandon and Shelby's second son, Tayte Darton Osmond was born on August 1, 2012. Donny's eldest son, Donald Jr. married Jessica Nelson on October 1, 2010, in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple and the couple had their first child, a son, Truman Clark Osmond on January 9, 2013.[26]
Like the rest of his family, he is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In retrospect, he has written, "It would have been nice to be able to have served a regular full-time mission, but when I was of that age, my career was such that everyone, including my parents and the leaders of the church, thought that I could do a lot of good in the world by continuing being in the public eye, by living an exemplary life and sharing my beliefs in every way that I could".[27] He continues sharing his beliefs in an extensive letters-and-comments portion of his website.[28]
In the aftermath of Proposition 8 in California, which received large Mormon support, Osmond stated that he opposes same-sex marriage but that he does not condemn homosexuality. He believes that homosexual and lesbian Mormons should be accepted in the church if they remain celibate.[29]
He stated on his website:

We all determine for ourselves what is right and what is not right for our own lives and how we live God's commandments. I am not a judge and I will never judge anyone for the decisions they make unless they are causing harm to another individual. I love my friends, including my homosexual friends. We are all God's children. It is their choice, not mine on how they conduct their lives and choose to live the commandments according to the dictates of their own conscience.[30]
Osmond's two older brothers are deaf and his nephew is hard of hearing. He has talked about the experience of growing up with his brothers and their use of sign language when performing together:
"My oldest brother was born 85 percent deaf and the next was born worse with almost total deafness. My parents were told by everyone, doctors included, to stop having kids. Thank God, they at least went as far as seven! Anyhow, they decided they were not going to treat my brothers differently [or lower their expectations.] My brothers talk and communicate verbally. They also sign and do have that down quite well. As a matter of fact, we used sign language when we were performing together as a group. There's this one number we did on the Donny and Marie Show, it was amazing—even when we were taping it. It was a huge production number and my brothers learned the routine. Obviously they couldn't really hear the music, but they could feel the beat and they'd watch us out of the corner of their eyes to make sure they were still in tempo."[31]
Discography[edit]
Main article: Donny Osmond discography
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond Coming Home" from the BBC
2.Jump up ^ "Osmond as teen idol". Getback.com. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
3.Jump up ^ Luis Cardenas Runaway Video with Donny Osmond as the Angry Neighbor on YouTube
4.Jump up ^ Gold, Tayna. I hated being me, says former teen idol Donny Osmond. Daily Mail. Oct 5, 2007. Accessed Nov 21, 2007. "In 1988, after nearly ten years of playing high school halls, and waiting, Donny's promoter released Soldier Of Love as a mystery song – they played the song without revealing Donny as the singer."
5.Jump up ^ Mulan
6.Jump up ^ "Donny & Marie Show at Flamingo Las Vegas". Flamingolasvegas.com. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
7.Jump up ^ http://mm.reviewjournal.com/media/magazine/2013_Best-of-Las-Vegas/
8.Jump up ^ "Awards for Donny Osmond". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
9.Jump up ^ ABC dumps Donny Osmond-hosted TV show, by Steve Gorman, Mar 30, 2007, Reuters
10.Jump up ^ Cassidy, David; Deffaa, Chip (1994). C'mon, Get Happy ... Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus. New York: Warner Books. p. 221. ISBN 0-446-39531-5.
11.Jump up ^ The Broadway League (March 21, 1982). "Little Johnny Jones (1982 revival)". IBDb. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
12.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond Joins ADAA Board as Honorary Member". Anxiety and Depression Association of America.
13.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond Sheds Dreamcoat To Star in Mormon Pageant July 11–19". Playbill. July 12, 1997. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
14.Jump up ^ "Mormon spirit moves Osmond". Daily News (New York) (New York). July 9, 1997. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
15.Jump up ^ "Osmond Will Play Final Performance in Broadway's Beauty and the Beast". Playbill. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
16.Jump up ^ "Donny & Marie – A Broadway Christmas to play Broadway's Marriott Marquis Theatre this December". Broadwayworld.com. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
17.Jump up ^ "Donny & Marie's A Broadway Christmas Will Get Extra Performances". Playbill. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
18.Jump up ^ "Donny & Marie's A Broadway Christmas Gets One Extra Performance on Jan. 2". Playbill. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
19.Jump up ^ The Weird Al Yankovic interview, by Robert Berry, September 27, 2006, retrocrush.com
20.Jump up ^ The Original Famous Hams and ex-Hams List, by N2GJ and W2SG
21.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond: We suffer for his art". Salon.com. September 21, 1999. Retrieved May 23, 2009
22.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond: The Kid Re-invents Himself". Music Connection. June 26, 1989. Retrieved May 23, 2009[dead link]
23.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond". BBC News. December 6. In 1984 Osmond asked Michael Jackson for some career advise, and was told by Jackson to change his name, as it was considered too wholesome. 2004. Retrieved May 23, 2009
24.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond vs. Lady Gaga – Telephone Video Too Much for Parent". National Ledger. Mar 26, 2010. Retrieved Mar 31, 2010.
25.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
26.Jump up ^ Osmond, Jessica (2013-01-18). "Introducing". http://hummingbirdmemoirs.blogspot.com/. Retrieved 2013-01-13.[unreliable source?]
27.Jump up ^ Did You Ever Serve A Mission. donny.com. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
28.Jump up ^ My Beliefs. donny.com. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
29.Jump up ^ Mormon stars face backlash after homosexual marriage ban. Guy Adams. The Independent. November 9, 2008.
30.Jump up ^ Johnson, Ted (December 2, 2008). "Donny Osmond Wades into Prop 8 Debate". Variety.
31.Jump up ^ "Ability Magazine: Interview with Donny Osmond by Chet Cooper and Dr. Gillian Friedman’’". Retrieved April 6, 2012.
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Donny Osmond

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Donny Osmond
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Osmond in 2010
 
Background information

Birth name
Donald Clark Osmond
Born
December 9, 1957 (age 55)
Origin
Ogden, Utah, U.S.
Genres
Vocal, pop rock, R&B, bubblegum, blue-eyed soul, comedy, musical theatre
Occupations
Singer, songwriter, musician, actor, television host, dancer, radio personality, author
Years active
1963–present
Labels
Universal
Associated acts
Marie Osmond, The Osmonds, Dweezil Zappa
Website
Official website
Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond (born December 9, 1957) is an American singer, musician, actor, dancer, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer and author. In the mid-1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as The Osmonds, on the long-running variety program, The Andy Williams Show. Donny went solo in the early 1970s, covering such hits as "Go Away Little Girl" and "Puppy Love".
For over thirty-five years, he and younger sister Marie have gained fame as Donny & Marie, partly due to the success of their 1976–79 self-titled variety series, which aired on ABC. The duo also did a 1998–2000 talk show and have been headlining in Las Vegas since 2008. Between a highly successful teen career in the 1970s, and his rebirth in the 1990s, Osmond's career was stymied during the 1980s by what some have perceived as his "boy scout" image. Osmond stated on the May 1, 2009 Larry King Live show that longtime friend Michael Jackson suggested he change his name to boost his image. Osmond's agent even suggested that spreading false rumors about drug arrest charges might recharge his career. Osmond felt such allegations would have familial ramifications, and could not reconcile how lying to create a nefarious drug image could be explained to his children, nieces and nephews. In 1989, Osmond had two big-selling recordings, the first of which, "Soldier of Love", was initially credited to a "mystery artist" by some radio stations.
Starting in July 1992, Osmond played Joseph in the Elgin Theatre's Toronto production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The musical then toured North America until 1998. Creator Andrew Lloyd Webber, impressed by Osmond's talents and the show's successful six-year run, chose him for the 1999 film version.
In 2009, Osmond won the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Early life
2 Music career 2.1 Teen idol: 1971–1978
2.2 Comeback: 1989–1990
2.3 Current music career: 1991–2010
2.4 Donny & Marie in Las Vegas
3 Film, radio and television 3.1 Hosting 3.1.1 Donny & Marie
3.1.2 Other hosting opportunities
3.1.3 Radio
3.1.4 Music
3.2 Musical theater
3.3 Film
3.4 Dancing with the Stars
4 Other projects
5 Image struggle
6 Personal life
7 Discography
8 References
9 External links
Early life[edit]
Osmond was born in Ogden, Utah, the seventh son of Olive May Osmond (née Davis) and George Virl Osmond. He is the brother of Alan, Jay, Jimmy, Merrill, Wayne, Marie, Tom, and Virl Osmond. Alan, Jay, Merrill, Wayne, and Donny were members of the popular singing group The Osmonds (also known as The Osmond Brothers which later included tracks with youngest brother Jimmy as well). Donny was raised as a Mormon in Utah along with his siblings. Osmond later traced his family ancestry back to Merthyr Tydfil in Wales; his journey was documented in a BBC Wales program, Donny Osmond Coming Home.[1] On the BBC's The One Show, a plaque was unveiled in the town to commemorate 'the ancestors of Donny Osmond'.
Music career[edit]
Teen idol: 1971–1978[edit]
The father of Andy Williams, Jay, saw the Osmond Brothers (Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay) perform on a Disneyland televised special as a barbershop quartet. In short order, the group was invited to audition for The Andy Williams Show. Williams initially had reservations about featuring children on the program, however, encouraged by his father to try them out, they proved in a short period of time to become an asset to the program, and soon became regulars on the show and gained popularity quickly. Donny made his debut on the show at the age of 5 singing "You Are My Sunshine". The brothers continued to perform on the show throughout the 1960s along with a visit from their sister Marie. In the early 1970s, the Osmonds, via recording and virtually constant touring, sold over 80 million records in a single 12-month period, making them the most successful, and fatigued, of the early Seventies touring groups.
Donny became a teen idol in the early 1970s as a solo singer, while continuing to sing with his older brothers. He, Bobby Sherman, and David Cassidy were the biggest "Cover Boy" pop stars for Tiger Beat magazine in the early 1970s.[2] His first solo hit was a cover of Roy Orbison's 1958 recording of "Sweet and Innocent", which peaked at No. 7 in the U.S. in 1971. Donny's follow-ups "Go Away Little Girl" (1971) (U.S. #1), "Puppy Love" (U.S. #3), and "Hey Girl/I Knew You When" (U.S. #9) (1972) vaulted him into international fame, further advanced by his 20 November 1972 appearance on the Here's Lucy show, where he sang "Too Young" to Lucille Ball's niece, played by Eve Plumb, and sang with Lucie Arnaz ("I'll Never Fall in Love Again").
Comeback: 1989–1990[edit]
In the 1980s, Osmond re-invented himself as a solo vocal artist and abandoned the earlier television show image crafted to appeal to young viewers. He made an unlikely appearance as one of several celebrities and unknowns auditioning to sing for guitarist Jeff Beck in the video for Beck's 1985 single "Ambitious", followed in 1986 by an equally unlikely cameo in the animated Luis Cardenas music video "Runaway".[3] He spent several years as a performer, before hiring the services of music and entertainment guru Steven Machat, who got Osmond together with Peter Gabriel to see whether Machat and Gabriel could turn the TV Osmond's image into a contemporary young pop act. They succeeded, returning Osmond to the US charts in 1989 with the Billboard Hot 100 No. 2 song "Soldier of Love" and its top twenty follow-up "Sacred Emotion". The campaign to market "Soldier Of Love" received considerable airplay with the singer being presented as a "mystery artist" before his identity was later revealed.[4] Launching an extensive tour in support of the Eyes Don't Lie record, he enlisted Earth Wind & Fire and Kenny Loggins guitarist Dick Smith along with keyboardist Marc Jackson.
Donny was often reluctant to perform his earliest songs, in particular "Go Away Little Girl", but was convinced to sing the song live for KLOS-FM's Mark & Brian Christmas Show on December 21, 1990. Now he embraces his initial recording period with fondness, and recognizes that his many fans around the world are always excited and appreciative to hear his earliest chart successes.
Current music career: 1991–2010[edit]
Osmond was the guest vocalist on Dweezil Zappa's star-studded version of the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" which appeared on Zappa's 1991 album Confessions. The song also included guitar solos from Zakk Wylde, Steve Lukather, Warren DeMartini, Nuno Bettencourt, and Tim Pierce. Osmond sang "No One Has To Be Alone", but the song was heard at the end of the film The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water. He also sang "I'll Make a Man Out of You" for Disney's Mulan.[5]
In the 2000s, he released a Christmas album, an album of his favorite Broadway songs, and a compilation of popular love songs. In 2004, he returned to the UK Top 10 for the first time as a solo artist since 1973, with the George Benson-sampling "Breeze On By", co-written with former teen idol Gary Barlow, from the 1990s UK boy band Take That, reaching number 8.


Donny & Marie in Las Vegas[edit]
Following Marie's stint on Dancing with the Stars in 2007, the pair teamed up for a limited engagement in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Las Vegas. Beginning September 2008, Donny and Marie began playing the 750-seat showroom at the Flamingo Hotel. "Donny & Marie" is a 90-minute show. The singing siblings are backed by eight dancers and a nine piece band. Donny and Marie sing together at the beginning and end of the show, and have solo segments in between. Donny and the show earned three of the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Best of Las Vegas Awards in 2012 including "Best Show", "Best All-Around Performer" (Donny & Marie), and "Best Singer".[6] Donny earned "Best Singer" for a second time in the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Best of Las Vegas Awards in 2013.[7]
Film, radio and television[edit]
Hosting[edit]
Donny & Marie[edit]
In the mid-1970s, he and Marie co-hosted The Mike Douglas Show for a week, and were later offered a show of their own, The Donny & Marie Show, a television variety series which aired on ABC between 1976 and 1979. Donny felt that their program should have been continued for at least another television season, and has expressed regret that the show was cancelled, as opposed to them deciding when to bring the show to conclusion.
Donny and Marie also co-hosted a talk show together 20 years later. Though ratings were high[citation needed] and they were nominated for an Emmy award[8] for best talk show, the series was ultimately canceled. In a 1999 episode featuring Jefferson Starship promoting their album Windows of Heaven, the hosts performed a rendition of "Volunteers" live with the band.
Other hosting opportunities[edit]
Osmond went on to host Pyramid, a syndicated version of the Dick Clark-hosted television game show that ran two seasons in the US from 2002 to 2004, and a British version of Pyramid on Challenge in 2007.
Osmond returned to ABC as host of The Great American Dream Vote, a prime-time reality/game show that debuted in March 2007. After earning lackluster ratings in its first two episodes, the program was cancelled.[9]
Osmond hosted the British version of the game show Identity on BBC Two during the daytime.
On April 11, 2008, Osmond also hosted the 2008 Miss USA pageant along with his sister Marie from Las Vegas.
Osmond appeared on Entertainment Tonight as a commentator covering the ABC show Dancing with the Stars during his sister Marie's run as a contestant on the 5th season of the American version of the popular show in Fall of 2007. He was seen at week 7 of the competition in tears in the audience watching Marie do a rumba after his and Marie's father died.
Radio[edit]

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In January 2010 it was announced that Osmond would host his own syndicated radio show in a deal with McVay Syndication and Citadel Media. Versions of The Donny Osmond Show now air across America, Canada, Australia and the UK.
The show is already rating No. 1 in numerous markets and is currently one of the fastest growing radio propositions.
The UK edition of the show is co-produced by London-based radio production & syndication company Blue Revolution. Through this partnership the first UK network to carry The Donny Osmond Show is Celador-owned The Breeze, which has outlets in Portsmouth, Southampton, Isle of Wight, Winchester, Bridgwater & West Somerset, Bristol, Bath and Warminster. As of January 2012, The Donny Osmond Show is no longer broadcasting on The Breeze.
From April 2012 Smooth Radio carried The Donny Osmond Show on Sunday evenings. It aired until April 2013 when Donny Osmand decided to leave the station.
Music[edit]
Osmond's name was used in the lyrics of Alice Cooper's song "Department of Youth" near the end. Cooper asks the kids doing the background vocals "who gave them the power", where the kids reply "Donny Osmond". Cooper then responds with an outraged "What?"
Musical theater[edit]
His first foray into Broadway musical theater was the lead role in a revival of the 1904 George M. Cohan show Little Johnny Jones. Osmond replaced another former teen idol, David Cassidy, who left the show while it was on its pre-Broadway tour.[10] After 29 previews and only 1 performance, the show closed on March 21, 1982.[11]
Osmond found success in musical theater through much of the 1990s when he starred in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for over 2,000 performances. During his performances for the musical, he suffered from social anxiety disorder, which caused him to feel light-headed and extremely nervous during his performances.[12] In 1997, Osmond left his starring role in the tour to participate with his family in the cast of the Hill Cumorah Pageant.[13][14]
He returned to Broadway on September 19, 2006, in the role of Gaston in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. He was scheduled to perform for nine weeks, but due to popular demand he extended his run through December 24. Liz Smith of the New York Post wrote, "I am here to tell you he is charmingly campy, good-looking and grand as the villain 'Gaston', patterned after our old friend Elvis", and noting "Donny is divine". On July 29, 2007, Osmond played Gaston again for the final performance of Beauty and the Beast.[15]
Donny and his sister Marie starred in a holiday production called Donny & Marie – A Broadway Christmas, which was originally scheduled to play on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre from December 9–19, 2010. The show was then extended till December 30, 2010 and again till January 2, 2011.[16][17][18] Donny & Marie – Christmas in Chicago played the Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre in Chicago from December 6–24, 2011. It was similar to the 2010 Broadway show.
Film[edit]
In the animated television series Johnny Bravo, Osmond voiced himself as a recurring character. He has also done guest spots on numerous other television shows such as Friends, Diagnosis: Murder, and Hannah Montana. He also appeared in a Pepsi Twist commercial during the Super Bowl with his sister, Marie, and Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. In 1982, he co-starred with Priscilla Barnes and Joan Collins in the television movie The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch for Aaron Spelling.
In 1998, Donny Osmond was chosen to be the singing voice of Shang in Walt Disney's Mulan. He sang "I'll Make a Man Out of You".
Also in 1999, he starred in the movie version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Andrew Lloyd Webber's request who said, "to me there is no better selection". In addition to playing the role of Joseph.
In 2002 he sang 'No One Has To Be Alone' for the end credits of The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water.
Osmond remarked in an interview recently that with his movie appearance on College Road Trip and upcoming appearances on two Disney Channel shows that he would coming about full circle since he and his family were discovered by Walt Disney.
Osmond appears in the music video of "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "White & Nerdy". The song is a parody of Chamillionaire's "Ridin'"; Osmond's role is analogous to that of Krayzie Bone's role in the original video. Yankovic asked Osmond to appear because "if you have to have a white and nerdy icon in your video, like who else do you go for?"[19]
Dancing with the Stars[edit]
Osmond and professional Kym Johnson were paired for the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars; he participated in the show to prove he was a better dancer than his sister. It was very difficult for him to manage to get to rehearsals and host his show in Las Vegas with sister Marie. For the first week, the two were assigned to dance a Foxtrot and a 30-second Salsa. His Foxtrot was said to be "too theatrical" and was scored 20/30 from the judges. He however managed to maintain a good score when his Salsa scored 10 points and was safe that week. He danced a Jive the following week which was guest judged by Baz Luhrman. He scored 25 and was scored 2nd place, called first to be safe. That following week he danced a Rumba and scored 21.
After his comments, he "attacked" openly homosexual judge Bruno Tonioli, first kissing him, before embracing him and tipping him back in a mock-passionate move after Bruno called Donny's dance "a bit airy fairy". The following week introduced 4 new dances including the Charleston which he danced and scored 24. That following week, the two danced an Argentine Tango which scored 29/30, the highest scored dance to date until it was beaten by then leader topping scorer and future runner-up Mýa and her 70s-themed Samba. He had also received that week's encore.
Following that week, Osmond and Johnson danced a train-station themed Jitterbug and was scored a 24. He then danced a Mambo against all couples and was eliminated 6th receiving 7 points for a total of 31/40. The following week, he danced a Quickstep which he quotes "was one of the worst moments of my life" and scored 24 and a Team Tango along with Joanna Krupa and Kelly Osbourne and received 28/30 and the encore.
In the 8th week of competition, Osmond was required to dance a Ballroom and decade-themed Latin dance. His Ballroom Viennese Waltz received 26 but his 1980s themed Paso Doble received 24 being quoted by judge Len Goodman as "the most scariest, bizarre Paso Doble we've ever seen" being awarded last place on the judges' leaderboard for the first time. Following that week, he danced a Tango and got advice from past runner-up Gilles Marini. He got tangled in Johnson's dress and received 21 and saying the cause was that "I saw Marie". He then danced a samba to a song originally recorded by his brothers and himself called "One Bad Apple", receiving 26 and a Jitterbug scored 27. He once again was scored last place.
For the finals week, he danced a Cha-Cha-Cha (27), a Megamix dance alongside Mya and Kelly Osbourne (28), the only perfect-scoring Freestyle (30) and a repeat of his Argentine Tango (30) and won the competition. As he accepted his trophy, he hugged fellow finalist Mya and grabbed his wife, Debbie, and his sister, Marie, on stage.

Week
Dance & Song
Carrie Ann's
 Score
Len/Baz's
 Score
Bruno's
 Score
Result
1 Foxtrot/"All That Jazz" 7 6 7 N/A
1 Salsa Relay/"Get Busy" Awarded 10 Points Safe
2 Jive/"Secret Agent Man" 8 9 8 Safe
3 Rumba/"Endless Love" 7 7 7 Safe
4 Charleston/"Put a Lid on It" 8 8 8 Safe
5 Argentine Tango/"Tango a Pugliese" 10 9 10 Safe
5 Hustle Group Dance/"Do the Hustle" N/A N/A N/A N/A
6 Jitterbug/"Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" 8 8 8 Safe
6 Mambo Marathon/"Ran Kan Kan" Awarded 7 Points Safe
7 Quickstep/"Sing, Sing, Sing" 8 8 8 Safe
7 Team Tango/"You Give Love a Bad Name" 9 9 10 Safe
8 Viennese Waltz/"You Don't Know Me" 9 8 9 Safe
8 1980s Paso Doble/"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" 8 8 8 Safe
9 Tango/"Black and Gold" 7 7 7 Safe
9 Samba/"One Bad Apple" 8 9 9 Safe
9 Jitterbug/"Jump Shout Boogie" 9 9 9 Safe
10 Cha-Cha-Cha/"September" 9 9 9 Winner
10 Megamix/"You and Me", "Whenever, Wherever", "Maniac" Awarded 28 Points Winner
10 Freestyle/"Back in Business" 10 10 10 Winner
10 Argentine Tango/"Tango a Pugliese" Awarded 30 Points Winner
Other projects[edit]
In his youth, Donny held a ham radio license, KA7EVD.[20]
Osmond appeared in the North American version commercial for the PlayStation 2 video game Buzz! the Mega Quiz.
Donny and Marie began a six-month run as the new headlining act at the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas, on September 9, 2008. On October 27, 2008, the Flamingo announced that Donny and Marie's contract had been extended until October 2010. Then on July 30, 2009, Donny & Marie made an announcement on NBC's Today Show that they had again extended their contract to go until October 2012.
On December 15, 2009, he appeared on The Paul O'Grady Show, along with his sister, Marie, being interviewed by the Channel 4 resident dinner lady, Susan.
Image struggle[edit]
Osmond states that he has had a tremendous public image struggle since Donny & Marie ended in 1979.[21] He has been described as 'unhip',[22] as a 'boy scout', and has been the butt of innumerable jokes, including appearing in the video "White & Nerdy" at the request of his friend, Yankovic, since he was 'the whitest guy [he] could think of'. His image has seemed such a liability that one professional publicist even suggested that Osmond purposefully get arrested for drug possession in order to change his image.[23] In March 2010, Osmond criticized Lady Gaga and Beyoncé for using profanity and sex in their Telephone video.[24]
Personal life[edit]
Osmond married Debra Glenn (born in Billings, Montana on February 26, 1959) on May 8, 1978, in the Salt Lake Temple at age 20. Together they have five sons: Donald Clark Osmond, Jr. (b. 1979), Jeremy James Osmond (b. 1981), Brandon Michael Osmond (b. 1985), Christopher Glenn Osmond (b. 1990), and Joshua Davis Osmond (b. 1998).[25]
Osmond became a grandfather on August 21, 2005, when his second son Jeremy and daughter-in-law Melisa (married 2002) had a son, Dylan James Osmond. His granddaughter Emery Anne was born on February 25, 2008. Osmond's third son Brandon married Shelby Hansen in 2008. Their son, Daxton Michael was born on June 28, 2010. Brandon and Shelby's second son, Tayte Darton Osmond was born on August 1, 2012. Donny's eldest son, Donald Jr. married Jessica Nelson on October 1, 2010, in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple and the couple had their first child, a son, Truman Clark Osmond on January 9, 2013.[26]
Like the rest of his family, he is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In retrospect, he has written, "It would have been nice to be able to have served a regular full-time mission, but when I was of that age, my career was such that everyone, including my parents and the leaders of the church, thought that I could do a lot of good in the world by continuing being in the public eye, by living an exemplary life and sharing my beliefs in every way that I could".[27] He continues sharing his beliefs in an extensive letters-and-comments portion of his website.[28]
In the aftermath of Proposition 8 in California, which received large Mormon support, Osmond stated that he opposes same-sex marriage but that he does not condemn homosexuality. He believes that homosexual and lesbian Mormons should be accepted in the church if they remain celibate.[29]
He stated on his website:

We all determine for ourselves what is right and what is not right for our own lives and how we live God's commandments. I am not a judge and I will never judge anyone for the decisions they make unless they are causing harm to another individual. I love my friends, including my homosexual friends. We are all God's children. It is their choice, not mine on how they conduct their lives and choose to live the commandments according to the dictates of their own conscience.[30]
Osmond's two older brothers are deaf and his nephew is hard of hearing. He has talked about the experience of growing up with his brothers and their use of sign language when performing together:
"My oldest brother was born 85 percent deaf and the next was born worse with almost total deafness. My parents were told by everyone, doctors included, to stop having kids. Thank God, they at least went as far as seven! Anyhow, they decided they were not going to treat my brothers differently [or lower their expectations.] My brothers talk and communicate verbally. They also sign and do have that down quite well. As a matter of fact, we used sign language when we were performing together as a group. There's this one number we did on the Donny and Marie Show, it was amazing—even when we were taping it. It was a huge production number and my brothers learned the routine. Obviously they couldn't really hear the music, but they could feel the beat and they'd watch us out of the corner of their eyes to make sure they were still in tempo."[31]
Discography[edit]
Main article: Donny Osmond discography
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond Coming Home" from the BBC
2.Jump up ^ "Osmond as teen idol". Getback.com. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
3.Jump up ^ Luis Cardenas Runaway Video with Donny Osmond as the Angry Neighbor on YouTube
4.Jump up ^ Gold, Tayna. I hated being me, says former teen idol Donny Osmond. Daily Mail. Oct 5, 2007. Accessed Nov 21, 2007. "In 1988, after nearly ten years of playing high school halls, and waiting, Donny's promoter released Soldier Of Love as a mystery song – they played the song without revealing Donny as the singer."
5.Jump up ^ Mulan
6.Jump up ^ "Donny & Marie Show at Flamingo Las Vegas". Flamingolasvegas.com. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
7.Jump up ^ http://mm.reviewjournal.com/media/magazine/2013_Best-of-Las-Vegas/
8.Jump up ^ "Awards for Donny Osmond". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
9.Jump up ^ ABC dumps Donny Osmond-hosted TV show, by Steve Gorman, Mar 30, 2007, Reuters
10.Jump up ^ Cassidy, David; Deffaa, Chip (1994). C'mon, Get Happy ... Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus. New York: Warner Books. p. 221. ISBN 0-446-39531-5.
11.Jump up ^ The Broadway League (March 21, 1982). "Little Johnny Jones (1982 revival)". IBDb. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
12.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond Joins ADAA Board as Honorary Member". Anxiety and Depression Association of America.
13.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond Sheds Dreamcoat To Star in Mormon Pageant July 11–19". Playbill. July 12, 1997. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
14.Jump up ^ "Mormon spirit moves Osmond". Daily News (New York) (New York). July 9, 1997. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
15.Jump up ^ "Osmond Will Play Final Performance in Broadway's Beauty and the Beast". Playbill. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
16.Jump up ^ "Donny & Marie – A Broadway Christmas to play Broadway's Marriott Marquis Theatre this December". Broadwayworld.com. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
17.Jump up ^ "Donny & Marie's A Broadway Christmas Will Get Extra Performances". Playbill. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
18.Jump up ^ "Donny & Marie's A Broadway Christmas Gets One Extra Performance on Jan. 2". Playbill. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
19.Jump up ^ The Weird Al Yankovic interview, by Robert Berry, September 27, 2006, retrocrush.com
20.Jump up ^ The Original Famous Hams and ex-Hams List, by N2GJ and W2SG
21.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond: We suffer for his art". Salon.com. September 21, 1999. Retrieved May 23, 2009
22.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond: The Kid Re-invents Himself". Music Connection. June 26, 1989. Retrieved May 23, 2009[dead link]
23.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond". BBC News. December 6. In 1984 Osmond asked Michael Jackson for some career advise, and was told by Jackson to change his name, as it was considered too wholesome. 2004. Retrieved May 23, 2009
24.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond vs. Lady Gaga – Telephone Video Too Much for Parent". National Ledger. Mar 26, 2010. Retrieved Mar 31, 2010.
25.Jump up ^ "Donny Osmond". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
26.Jump up ^ Osmond, Jessica (2013-01-18). "Introducing". http://hummingbirdmemoirs.blogspot.com/. Retrieved 2013-01-13.[unreliable source?]
27.Jump up ^ Did You Ever Serve A Mission. donny.com. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
28.Jump up ^ My Beliefs. donny.com. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
29.Jump up ^ Mormon stars face backlash after homosexual marriage ban. Guy Adams. The Independent. November 9, 2008.
30.Jump up ^ Johnson, Ted (December 2, 2008). "Donny Osmond Wades into Prop 8 Debate". Variety.
31.Jump up ^ "Ability Magazine: Interview with Donny Osmond by Chet Cooper and Dr. Gillian Friedman’’". Retrieved April 6, 2012.
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Meyer at the 2012 Comic-Con in San Diego.
 
Born
Stephenie Morgan
 December 24, 1973 (age 39)
Hartford, Connecticut
Occupation
Novelist, producer
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Brigham Young University (B.A.)
Genres
Vampire romance, young-adult fiction, science fiction
Notable work(s)
The Twilight series, The Host
Spouse(s)
Christian Meyer (m. 1994)
Children
3
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Stephenie Meyer (née Morgan; /ˈmaɪ.ər/ MY-ər; born December 24, 1973) is an American young adult author and producer, best known for her vampire romance series Twilight.[1][2][3] The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies,[1][4] with translations into 37 different languages.[2][3] Meyer was the bestselling author of 2008 and 2009 in America, having sold over 29 million books in 2008,[5][6] and 26.5 million books in 2009.[7] Twilight was the best-selling book of 2008 in US bookstores.[8]
Meyer was ranked #49 on Time magazine's list of the "100 Most Influential People in 2008",[9] and was included in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list of the world's most powerful celebrities in 2009, entering at #26. Her annual earnings exceeded $50 million.[10] In 2010, Forbes ranked her as the #59 most powerful celebrity with annual earnings of $40 million.[11]

Contents
  [hide] 1 Early life
2 The Twilight series 2.1 Twilight
2.2 Subsequent novels
2.3 Inspiration
2.4 Film adaptations
3 The Host 3.1 Film adaptation
4 Analysis 4.1 Reception
4.2 Fan following
4.3 Criticism
5 Personal life
6 Film producer
7 Other works
8 Publications
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Early life[edit]
Stephenie Meyer was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Stephen and Candy Morgan. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, with five siblings: Seth, Emily, Jacob, Paul, and Heidi. She attended Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, where her former English teacher remembered her as "bright but not overly so."[12] She attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where she received a B.A. in English in 1997.[13] Meyer met her husband, Christian, when she was 4 years old in Arizona, and married him in 1994 when they were both 21. Together they have three sons: Gabe, Seth, and Eli. Christian Meyer, formerly an auditor, has now retired to take care of the children.[14]
Meyer is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; she has stated that she is straight-laced about her beliefs and does not drink alcohol or smoke.[15] Meyer had no experience as a writer of any kind and had never even written a short story before Twilight. She had considered going to law school because she felt she had no chance of becoming a writer; she later noted that the birth of her oldest son Gabe changed her mind, saying, "Once I had Gabe, I just wanted to be his mom."[15] Before becoming an author, Meyer's only professional work was as a receptionist in a property company.[14]
The Twilight series[edit]
Twilight[edit]
Meyer says that the idea for Twilight came to her in a dream on June 2, 2003.[16] The dream was about a human girl and a vampire who was in love with her but thirsted for her blood.[16] Based on this dream, Meyer wrote the draft of what became Chapter 13 of the book.[17] In a matter of three months she had transformed her dream into a complete novel,[1] though she claims that she never intended to publish Twilight and was writing for her own enjoyment.[18] Her sister's response to the book was enthusiastic and she persuaded Meyer to send the manuscript to literary agencies.[14]
Of the 15 letters she wrote, five went unanswered, nine brought rejections, and the last was a positive response from Jodi Reamer of Writers House.[19] Eight publishers competed for the rights to publish Twilight in a 2003 auction.[19] By November, Meyer had signed a $750,000 three-book deal with Little, Brown and Company.[20] Twilight was published in 2005 with a print run of 75,000 copies.[19] It reached #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Chapter Books within a month of its release,[21] and later rose to #1.[22] Foreign rights to the novel were sold to over 26 countries.[23] The novel was named the Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Editor's Choice.[24]
Subsequent novels[edit]
Following the success of Twilight (2005), Meyer expanded the story into a series with three more books: New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007), and Breaking Dawn (2008). In its first week after publication, New Moon reached #5 on the New York Times Best Seller List for Children's Chapter Books, and in its second week rose to the #1 position, where it remained for the next 11 weeks. In total, it spent over 50 weeks on the list.[25] After the release of Eclipse, the first three "Twilight" books spent a combined 143 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.[1] The fourth installment of the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, was released with an initial print run of 3.7 million copies.[26] Over 1.3 million copies were sold on the first day.[27] The novel won Meyer her first British Book Award, despite competition with J. K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard.[28] The series has sold over 100 million copies worldwide[4] in 37 languages.[29] In 2008, the four books of the series claimed the top four spots on USA Today's year-end bestseller list, making Meyer the first author to ever achieve this feat, as well as being the bestselling author of the year.[5] The Twilight novels held the top four spots on USA Today's year-end list again in 2009.[30]
In August 2009, USA Today revealed that Meyer broke J.K. Rowling's record on their bestseller list; the four Twilight books had spent 52 straight weeks in the top 10.[31] The books have spent more than 143 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List. Upon the completion of the fourth entry in the series, Meyer indicated that Breaking Dawn would be the final novel to be told from Bella Swan's perspective.[32] Midnight Sun was to be a companion novel to the series. It would be a retelling of the events of the novel Twilight, but from the perspective of Edward Cullen.[33] Meyer had hoped to have Midnight Sun published some time shortly after the release of Breaking Dawn, but after an online leak of a rough draft of its first 12 chapters, Meyer chose to delay the project indefinitely.[33][34] Meyer has decided to pursue non-Twilight related books as a result of the leak. She made the rough chapters of Midnight Sun available on her website.[33]
Inspiration[edit]
Meyer cites many novels as inspiration for the Twilight series, including Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery.[35] Each book in the series was also inspired specifically by a different literary classic: Twilight by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; New Moon by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; Eclipse by Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; and Breaking Dawn's theme by Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice[36] and A Midsummer Night's Dream.[37] Meyer said, "I've been reading books for adults my entire life. Growing up I was an avid reader—the thicker the book, the better."[38] She also said she is a huge fan of Orson Scott Card, and "can't go through a year without re-reading" Jane Austen's books.[38]
She also says that her writing is strongly influenced by music, and she posts playlists on her website of songs which specifically inspired her books. Bands included most often in her playlists are Muse, Blue October, My Chemical Romance, Coldplay and Linkin Park.[39][40][41][42] As a Mormon, Meyer acknowledges that her faith has influenced her work. In particular, she says that her characters "tend to think more about where they came from, and where they are going, than might be typical."[43] Meyer says that she does not consciously intend her novels to be Mormon-influenced, or to promote the virtues of sexual abstinence and spiritual purity, but admits that her writing is shaped by her values, saying,

I don't think my books are going to be really graphic or dark, because of who I am. There's always going to be a lot of light in my stories.[44]
Film adaptations[edit]
Main article: The Twilight Saga (film series)
Summit Entertainment optioned Twilight in April 2007. Catherine Hardwicke directed the film and the screenplay was written by Melissa Rosenberg.[45] It stars Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan, Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen and Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black.[46] The movie was released on November 21, 2008.[47] Meyer makes a brief cameo appearance in a diner scene.[48] Following the success of Twilight, Summit greenlit a film adaptation of the sequel, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, in November 2008.[49] Chris Weitz directed the film,[50] which was released on November 20, 2009.[51] Summit confirmed an adaptation of the third book in the series, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, in February 2009.[52] David Slade directed the film, which was released on June 30, 2010. Summit also obtained the rights to Breaking Dawn in November 2008,[53] and approved a two-part adaptation in June 2010 that was scheduled to start production in late 2010.[54] The first part was released on November 18, 2011, and the second part was released on November 16, 2012.[55]
The Host[edit]
In May 2008, Meyer's adult sci-fi novel The Host, was released by the adult division of Little, Brown and Company. It follows the story of Melanie Stryder and Wanderer, a young woman and an invading alien "soul," who are forced to work as one. The Host debuted at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list[56] and remained on the list for 26 weeks.[57] Meyer has said that she is working on additional books in The Host series and that she intends to write a trilogy, with the second and third books being called "The Soul" and "The Seeker", respectively.[58] In a Q&A session in Kansas City, Meyer stated that she has outlines for the sequels and has done some writing on them, but she has some qualms since The Host universe is a "dangerous place" where characters might die, and she is not sure if she wants to kill them off.[59]
Film adaptation[edit]
The novel has been adapted into a film with Andrew Niccol directing and Saoirse Ronan starring as Melanie Stryder, Max Irons as Jared Howe and Jake Abel as Ian O'Shea.[60][61] The film was released on March 29, 2013, to generally negative reviews.[62][63]
Analysis[edit]
Reception[edit]

 

 Meyer on her book tour for Eclipse in 2007
Entertainment Weekly has stated that Meyer is "the world's most popular vampire novelist since Anne Rice",[64] while The Guardian described her as an "imaginative storyteller, a prolific author and a newly powerful figure in the publishing market."[65] Wayne Janes of Toronto Sun agreed, saying "Meyer's success points up another trend—the virtual domination of the best-seller lists the last few years by what would normally be classified as young adult fiction," and noted,

In the absence of a new Harry Potter adventure, teens, fantasy enthusiasts and women (sales are mostly to females) who swoon at the idea of a virginal James Dean-ish vampire made Meyer the go-to gal for chaste love."[66] Tymon Smith of The Times has described her as the "superstar of young adult fiction".[67]
Meyer was named USA Today's "Author of the Year" in 2008,[68] and one of MSN Lifestyle's "Most Influential Women of 2008" where she was described as a "literary luminary".[69] She was also ranked #49 on Time magazine's list of the "100 Most Influential People in 2008",[9] and was included in their list of "People Who Mattered", with Lev Grossman noting, "Maybe Americans aren't ready for a Mormon presidential nominee yet. But they're more than ready to anoint a Mormon as the best-selling novelist of the year."[70] Meyer was included in The Arizona Republic's "Valley's Most Fascinating People" in December 2008.[71]
Novelist Orson Scott Card said, "[Stephenie Meyer] writes with luminous clarity, never standing between the reader and the dream they share. She's the real thing".[72] Scott described Meyer as an "amazing phenomenon".[73] In an interview with Newsweek, author Jodi Picoult said, "Stephenie Meyer has gotten people hooked on books, and that's good for all of us."[74] Meyer was ranked #5 on Forbes' list of "Hollywood's Top-Earning Women", the only author on the list, and it was noted that the "Twilight series of young-adult vampire books have taken the publishing and film worlds by storm."[75]
She was ranked #82 on Vanity Fair's list of the "Top 100 Information Age Powers" of 2009.[76] Meyer was featured in an issue of the biographical comic Female Force, a Bluewater Productions title which celebrates influential women in society and pop culture.[51] The comic has previously published biographies of women such as Oprah Winfrey and Princess Diana.[51] In 2011 CEOWORLD Magazine ranked her among CEOWORLD magazine's Top Accomplished Women Entertainers.[77] Meyer was the second bestselling author of the decade, according to a list published by Amazon, beaten by JK Rowling.[78]
Fan following[edit]
Meyer has gained a following among young adult readers of her Twilight novels, which are set in the small town of Forks on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. Forks has thus received attention from fans, and celebrates "Stephenie Meyer Day" on September 13, the date of character Bella Swan's birthday.[79] Fans express themselves in other ways: "[They] dress up like her characters. They write their own stories about them and post their tales on the Internet. When she appears at a bookstore, 3,000 people go to meet her. There are Twilight-themed rock bands."[80]
Criticism[edit]
Comparing Meyer to J. K. Rowling, Stephen King stated, "The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer, and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good."[81][82] King went on to say that:

People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it's very clear that she's writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening because it's not overtly sexual.
He further explains,

A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like, the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that’s a shorthand for all the feelings that they’re not ready to deal with yet.[82]
Meyer has been criticized by feminists[who?] who consider Meyer an anti-feminist writer, saying that the series romanticizes a physically abusive relationship, pointing to red flags that include Bella's entire life revolving around Edward; never being in control of her own life; being absolutely dependent on Edward’s ability to protect her life, her virginity, and her humanity; and the physical injuries Bella suffers from finally consummating her relationship with Edward.[83][84][85] Meyer has dismissed such criticisms, saying both that the books center around Bella's choice, and that her damsel in distress persona is due only to her humanity.[86]
Personal life[edit]
Meyer married Christian Meyer in 1994. They have three sons together: Gabe, Seth and Eli. The family lives in Cave Creek, Arizona,[87] and also own a home on Marrowstone Island, Washington.[88]
Film producer[edit]
Meyer is also a film producer. Meyer started her own production company in 2011 with producer Meghan Hibbett. The company is called Fickle Fish Films. Meyer spent much of 2011 producing both parts of Breaking Dawn as well as the film adaptation of Shannon Hale's novel Austenland. On February 12, 2012, Meyer announced on her personal website that filming for The Host, for which she is also a producer, would begin Monday, February 13, 2012. In April 2012, Meyer announced that she would be producing a film adaptation of Lois Duncan's Down a Dark Hall.[89]
Other works[edit]

 

 Meyer in 2009
One of Meyer's short stories was published in Prom Nights from Hell, a collection of stories about bad prom nights with supernatural effects. Meyer's story "Hell on Earth", was about a demon named Sheba and a half-angel named Gabe who fall in love with each other. Other authors who contributed to the collection are Meg Cabot, Kim Harrison, Michele Jaffe and Lauren Myracle. Prom Nights from Hell was released in April 2007.
Meyer mentions having several other book ideas on file, including a ghost story titled Summer House and a novel involving time travel,[90] as well as another about mermaids.[91][92] On August 28, 2008, it was announced that Meyer had written the treatment for Jack's Mannequin music video "The Resolution", which she co-directed the following week.[93][94]
In 2009, Meyer teamed with the skateboard and clothing company Hobo Skate Company to produce her own clothing line, consisting of a line of T-shirts and skateboards related to her science-fiction novel The Host.[95] On March 30, 2010, it was announced that Meyer had written a 200-page novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. The book was released on June 5, 2010, by Atom and was available for free between June 7 and July 5 on the official website.[96][97]
In April 2009, Meyer took part in Project Book Babe, a benefit designed to help pay her friend Faith Hochhalter's medical bills after Hochhalter was diagnosed with breast cancer. Meyer donated many advance reader copies and original manuscripts for auction.[98][99] The same year, Meyer teamed up with Hobo Skate Company to auction off a The Host-themed skateboard, which sold for $1500 that was donated to charity.[95]
Publications[edit]
Twilight series1.Twilight (2005)
2.New Moon (2006)
3.Eclipse (2007)
4.Breaking Dawn (2008)
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (2010)
The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide (2011)
Other booksProm Nights from Hell (section, 2007)
The Host (2008)
See also[edit]

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Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Meyer at the 2012 Comic-Con in San Diego.
 
Born
Stephenie Morgan
 December 24, 1973 (age 39)
Hartford, Connecticut
Occupation
Novelist, producer
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Brigham Young University (B.A.)
Genres
Vampire romance, young-adult fiction, science fiction
Notable work(s)
The Twilight series, The Host
Spouse(s)
Christian Meyer (m. 1994)
Children
3
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Stephenie Meyer (née Morgan; /ˈmaɪ.ər/ MY-ər; born December 24, 1973) is an American young adult author and producer, best known for her vampire romance series Twilight.[1][2][3] The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies,[1][4] with translations into 37 different languages.[2][3] Meyer was the bestselling author of 2008 and 2009 in America, having sold over 29 million books in 2008,[5][6] and 26.5 million books in 2009.[7] Twilight was the best-selling book of 2008 in US bookstores.[8]
Meyer was ranked #49 on Time magazine's list of the "100 Most Influential People in 2008",[9] and was included in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list of the world's most powerful celebrities in 2009, entering at #26. Her annual earnings exceeded $50 million.[10] In 2010, Forbes ranked her as the #59 most powerful celebrity with annual earnings of $40 million.[11]

Contents
  [hide] 1 Early life
2 The Twilight series 2.1 Twilight
2.2 Subsequent novels
2.3 Inspiration
2.4 Film adaptations
3 The Host 3.1 Film adaptation
4 Analysis 4.1 Reception
4.2 Fan following
4.3 Criticism
5 Personal life
6 Film producer
7 Other works
8 Publications
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Early life[edit]
Stephenie Meyer was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Stephen and Candy Morgan. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, with five siblings: Seth, Emily, Jacob, Paul, and Heidi. She attended Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, where her former English teacher remembered her as "bright but not overly so."[12] She attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where she received a B.A. in English in 1997.[13] Meyer met her husband, Christian, when she was 4 years old in Arizona, and married him in 1994 when they were both 21. Together they have three sons: Gabe, Seth, and Eli. Christian Meyer, formerly an auditor, has now retired to take care of the children.[14]
Meyer is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; she has stated that she is straight-laced about her beliefs and does not drink alcohol or smoke.[15] Meyer had no experience as a writer of any kind and had never even written a short story before Twilight. She had considered going to law school because she felt she had no chance of becoming a writer; she later noted that the birth of her oldest son Gabe changed her mind, saying, "Once I had Gabe, I just wanted to be his mom."[15] Before becoming an author, Meyer's only professional work was as a receptionist in a property company.[14]
The Twilight series[edit]
Twilight[edit]
Meyer says that the idea for Twilight came to her in a dream on June 2, 2003.[16] The dream was about a human girl and a vampire who was in love with her but thirsted for her blood.[16] Based on this dream, Meyer wrote the draft of what became Chapter 13 of the book.[17] In a matter of three months she had transformed her dream into a complete novel,[1] though she claims that she never intended to publish Twilight and was writing for her own enjoyment.[18] Her sister's response to the book was enthusiastic and she persuaded Meyer to send the manuscript to literary agencies.[14]
Of the 15 letters she wrote, five went unanswered, nine brought rejections, and the last was a positive response from Jodi Reamer of Writers House.[19] Eight publishers competed for the rights to publish Twilight in a 2003 auction.[19] By November, Meyer had signed a $750,000 three-book deal with Little, Brown and Company.[20] Twilight was published in 2005 with a print run of 75,000 copies.[19] It reached #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Chapter Books within a month of its release,[21] and later rose to #1.[22] Foreign rights to the novel were sold to over 26 countries.[23] The novel was named the Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Editor's Choice.[24]
Subsequent novels[edit]
Following the success of Twilight (2005), Meyer expanded the story into a series with three more books: New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007), and Breaking Dawn (2008). In its first week after publication, New Moon reached #5 on the New York Times Best Seller List for Children's Chapter Books, and in its second week rose to the #1 position, where it remained for the next 11 weeks. In total, it spent over 50 weeks on the list.[25] After the release of Eclipse, the first three "Twilight" books spent a combined 143 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.[1] The fourth installment of the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, was released with an initial print run of 3.7 million copies.[26] Over 1.3 million copies were sold on the first day.[27] The novel won Meyer her first British Book Award, despite competition with J. K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard.[28] The series has sold over 100 million copies worldwide[4] in 37 languages.[29] In 2008, the four books of the series claimed the top four spots on USA Today's year-end bestseller list, making Meyer the first author to ever achieve this feat, as well as being the bestselling author of the year.[5] The Twilight novels held the top four spots on USA Today's year-end list again in 2009.[30]
In August 2009, USA Today revealed that Meyer broke J.K. Rowling's record on their bestseller list; the four Twilight books had spent 52 straight weeks in the top 10.[31] The books have spent more than 143 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List. Upon the completion of the fourth entry in the series, Meyer indicated that Breaking Dawn would be the final novel to be told from Bella Swan's perspective.[32] Midnight Sun was to be a companion novel to the series. It would be a retelling of the events of the novel Twilight, but from the perspective of Edward Cullen.[33] Meyer had hoped to have Midnight Sun published some time shortly after the release of Breaking Dawn, but after an online leak of a rough draft of its first 12 chapters, Meyer chose to delay the project indefinitely.[33][34] Meyer has decided to pursue non-Twilight related books as a result of the leak. She made the rough chapters of Midnight Sun available on her website.[33]
Inspiration[edit]
Meyer cites many novels as inspiration for the Twilight series, including Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery.[35] Each book in the series was also inspired specifically by a different literary classic: Twilight by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; New Moon by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; Eclipse by Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; and Breaking Dawn's theme by Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice[36] and A Midsummer Night's Dream.[37] Meyer said, "I've been reading books for adults my entire life. Growing up I was an avid reader—the thicker the book, the better."[38] She also said she is a huge fan of Orson Scott Card, and "can't go through a year without re-reading" Jane Austen's books.[38]
She also says that her writing is strongly influenced by music, and she posts playlists on her website of songs which specifically inspired her books. Bands included most often in her playlists are Muse, Blue October, My Chemical Romance, Coldplay and Linkin Park.[39][40][41][42] As a Mormon, Meyer acknowledges that her faith has influenced her work. In particular, she says that her characters "tend to think more about where they came from, and where they are going, than might be typical."[43] Meyer says that she does not consciously intend her novels to be Mormon-influenced, or to promote the virtues of sexual abstinence and spiritual purity, but admits that her writing is shaped by her values, saying,

I don't think my books are going to be really graphic or dark, because of who I am. There's always going to be a lot of light in my stories.[44]
Film adaptations[edit]
Main article: The Twilight Saga (film series)
Summit Entertainment optioned Twilight in April 2007. Catherine Hardwicke directed the film and the screenplay was written by Melissa Rosenberg.[45] It stars Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan, Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen and Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black.[46] The movie was released on November 21, 2008.[47] Meyer makes a brief cameo appearance in a diner scene.[48] Following the success of Twilight, Summit greenlit a film adaptation of the sequel, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, in November 2008.[49] Chris Weitz directed the film,[50] which was released on November 20, 2009.[51] Summit confirmed an adaptation of the third book in the series, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, in February 2009.[52] David Slade directed the film, which was released on June 30, 2010. Summit also obtained the rights to Breaking Dawn in November 2008,[53] and approved a two-part adaptation in June 2010 that was scheduled to start production in late 2010.[54] The first part was released on November 18, 2011, and the second part was released on November 16, 2012.[55]
The Host[edit]
In May 2008, Meyer's adult sci-fi novel The Host, was released by the adult division of Little, Brown and Company. It follows the story of Melanie Stryder and Wanderer, a young woman and an invading alien "soul," who are forced to work as one. The Host debuted at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list[56] and remained on the list for 26 weeks.[57] Meyer has said that she is working on additional books in The Host series and that she intends to write a trilogy, with the second and third books being called "The Soul" and "The Seeker", respectively.[58] In a Q&A session in Kansas City, Meyer stated that she has outlines for the sequels and has done some writing on them, but she has some qualms since The Host universe is a "dangerous place" where characters might die, and she is not sure if she wants to kill them off.[59]
Film adaptation[edit]
The novel has been adapted into a film with Andrew Niccol directing and Saoirse Ronan starring as Melanie Stryder, Max Irons as Jared Howe and Jake Abel as Ian O'Shea.[60][61] The film was released on March 29, 2013, to generally negative reviews.[62][63]
Analysis[edit]
Reception[edit]

 

 Meyer on her book tour for Eclipse in 2007
Entertainment Weekly has stated that Meyer is "the world's most popular vampire novelist since Anne Rice",[64] while The Guardian described her as an "imaginative storyteller, a prolific author and a newly powerful figure in the publishing market."[65] Wayne Janes of Toronto Sun agreed, saying "Meyer's success points up another trend—the virtual domination of the best-seller lists the last few years by what would normally be classified as young adult fiction," and noted,

In the absence of a new Harry Potter adventure, teens, fantasy enthusiasts and women (sales are mostly to females) who swoon at the idea of a virginal James Dean-ish vampire made Meyer the go-to gal for chaste love."[66] Tymon Smith of The Times has described her as the "superstar of young adult fiction".[67]
Meyer was named USA Today's "Author of the Year" in 2008,[68] and one of MSN Lifestyle's "Most Influential Women of 2008" where she was described as a "literary luminary".[69] She was also ranked #49 on Time magazine's list of the "100 Most Influential People in 2008",[9] and was included in their list of "People Who Mattered", with Lev Grossman noting, "Maybe Americans aren't ready for a Mormon presidential nominee yet. But they're more than ready to anoint a Mormon as the best-selling novelist of the year."[70] Meyer was included in The Arizona Republic's "Valley's Most Fascinating People" in December 2008.[71]
Novelist Orson Scott Card said, "[Stephenie Meyer] writes with luminous clarity, never standing between the reader and the dream they share. She's the real thing".[72] Scott described Meyer as an "amazing phenomenon".[73] In an interview with Newsweek, author Jodi Picoult said, "Stephenie Meyer has gotten people hooked on books, and that's good for all of us."[74] Meyer was ranked #5 on Forbes' list of "Hollywood's Top-Earning Women", the only author on the list, and it was noted that the "Twilight series of young-adult vampire books have taken the publishing and film worlds by storm."[75]
She was ranked #82 on Vanity Fair's list of the "Top 100 Information Age Powers" of 2009.[76] Meyer was featured in an issue of the biographical comic Female Force, a Bluewater Productions title which celebrates influential women in society and pop culture.[51] The comic has previously published biographies of women such as Oprah Winfrey and Princess Diana.[51] In 2011 CEOWORLD Magazine ranked her among CEOWORLD magazine's Top Accomplished Women Entertainers.[77] Meyer was the second bestselling author of the decade, according to a list published by Amazon, beaten by JK Rowling.[78]
Fan following[edit]
Meyer has gained a following among young adult readers of her Twilight novels, which are set in the small town of Forks on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. Forks has thus received attention from fans, and celebrates "Stephenie Meyer Day" on September 13, the date of character Bella Swan's birthday.[79] Fans express themselves in other ways: "[They] dress up like her characters. They write their own stories about them and post their tales on the Internet. When she appears at a bookstore, 3,000 people go to meet her. There are Twilight-themed rock bands."[80]
Criticism[edit]
Comparing Meyer to J. K. Rowling, Stephen King stated, "The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer, and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good."[81][82] King went on to say that:

People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it's very clear that she's writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening because it's not overtly sexual.
He further explains,

A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like, the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that’s a shorthand for all the feelings that they’re not ready to deal with yet.[82]
Meyer has been criticized by feminists[who?] who consider Meyer an anti-feminist writer, saying that the series romanticizes a physically abusive relationship, pointing to red flags that include Bella's entire life revolving around Edward; never being in control of her own life; being absolutely dependent on Edward’s ability to protect her life, her virginity, and her humanity; and the physical injuries Bella suffers from finally consummating her relationship with Edward.[83][84][85] Meyer has dismissed such criticisms, saying both that the books center around Bella's choice, and that her damsel in distress persona is due only to her humanity.[86]
Personal life[edit]
Meyer married Christian Meyer in 1994. They have three sons together: Gabe, Seth and Eli. The family lives in Cave Creek, Arizona,[87] and also own a home on Marrowstone Island, Washington.[88]
Film producer[edit]
Meyer is also a film producer. Meyer started her own production company in 2011 with producer Meghan Hibbett. The company is called Fickle Fish Films. Meyer spent much of 2011 producing both parts of Breaking Dawn as well as the film adaptation of Shannon Hale's novel Austenland. On February 12, 2012, Meyer announced on her personal website that filming for The Host, for which she is also a producer, would begin Monday, February 13, 2012. In April 2012, Meyer announced that she would be producing a film adaptation of Lois Duncan's Down a Dark Hall.[89]
Other works[edit]

 

 Meyer in 2009
One of Meyer's short stories was published in Prom Nights from Hell, a collection of stories about bad prom nights with supernatural effects. Meyer's story "Hell on Earth", was about a demon named Sheba and a half-angel named Gabe who fall in love with each other. Other authors who contributed to the collection are Meg Cabot, Kim Harrison, Michele Jaffe and Lauren Myracle. Prom Nights from Hell was released in April 2007.
Meyer mentions having several other book ideas on file, including a ghost story titled Summer House and a novel involving time travel,[90] as well as another about mermaids.[91][92] On August 28, 2008, it was announced that Meyer had written the treatment for Jack's Mannequin music video "The Resolution", which she co-directed the following week.[93][94]
In 2009, Meyer teamed with the skateboard and clothing company Hobo Skate Company to produce her own clothing line, consisting of a line of T-shirts and skateboards related to her science-fiction novel The Host.[95] On March 30, 2010, it was announced that Meyer had written a 200-page novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. The book was released on June 5, 2010, by Atom and was available for free between June 7 and July 5 on the official website.[96][97]
In April 2009, Meyer took part in Project Book Babe, a benefit designed to help pay her friend Faith Hochhalter's medical bills after Hochhalter was diagnosed with breast cancer. Meyer donated many advance reader copies and original manuscripts for auction.[98][99] The same year, Meyer teamed up with Hobo Skate Company to auction off a The Host-themed skateboard, which sold for $1500 that was donated to charity.[95]
Publications[edit]
Twilight series1.Twilight (2005)
2.New Moon (2006)
3.Eclipse (2007)
4.Breaking Dawn (2008)
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (2010)
The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide (2011)
Other booksProm Nights from Hell (section, 2007)
The Host (2008)
See also[edit]

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92.Jump up ^ "The Q & A Session in Spain with the members of Crepusculo.".
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94.Jump up ^ Jennifer Vineyard (2008-09-05). "'Twilight' Author Stephenie Meyer Tries To Drown Jack's Mannequin In 'Resolution' Video". MTV. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
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98.Jump up ^ Stephenie Meyer (2009-03-27). "March 27, 2008: Save the Book Babe!". StephenieMeyer.com. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
99.Jump up ^ PJ Standlee (2009-04-07). "Stephenie Meyer, J.S. Lewis and More Young Adult Authors Fight Cancer With Project Book Babe". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
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