TUESDAY: Author of "Ender's Game" Speaks at UC

What:  Orson Scott Card Lecture, Ropes Lecture Series
  
When: Jan. 31, 2006, 8 p.m.

Where: Braunstein 300 

Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools. Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), Biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series, The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry (An Open Book), and many plays and scripts. Orson Scott Card is a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University (formerly known as Southern Seminary College) in Buena Vista, Va. 

The annual Ropes Lecture Series is the highlight of winter quarter in the department of English and comparative literatures. Named after Cincinnati industrialist Nathaniel Ropes, whose endowment to UC funds the program, the Ropes Lecture Series brings a collection of prominent writers and scholars to campus to present public lectures, take part in panel discussions, and participate in graduate classes on both the M.A. and Ph.D. level.