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Rick Riordan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over twenty novels for young readers, including the Percy Jackson series.
For fifteen years, Rick taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. While teaching in San Antonio, Saint Mary’s Hall honored him with the school’s first Master Teacher Award.
While teaching full time, Riordan began writing mystery novels for grownups. His Tres Navarre series went on to win the top three national awards in the mystery genre – the Edgar, the Anthony and the Shamus. Riordan turned to children’s fiction when he started The Lightning Thief as a bedtime story for his oldest son.
Today, over 190 million copies of his books are in print worldwide, and rights have been sold into more than 37 countries. Rick and his wife Becky are both executive producers overseeing TV/film adaptations of his works including Percy Jackson, the Kane Chronicles and Daughter of the Deep.
Rick Riordan now writes full-time. He lives in Boston with his wife and two sons.
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Rick Riordan
Birthdate
June 5, 1964 (age 60)
Richard Russell Riordan, Jr., more commonly known as Rick Riordan (pronounced RICK RYE-er-din), who was born June 5, 1964, is a highly acclaimed American author from San Antonio, Texas. He currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife and two children.
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Biography
Riordan is famous for his Percy Jackson and the Olympians, series. He also wrote the Tres Navarre mystery series intended for adults and helped edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series. In addition, he published Maze of Bones for Scholastic, which is the first book in the 39 Clues series of books. His first book is called The Big Red Tequila.
He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, where he double-majored in English and history. For fifteen years he taught in public and private schools in California and in San Antonio, Texas. As a teacher, he received inspiration for names included in his best-selling P Rick Riordan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over twenty novels for young readers, including the Percy Jackson series, the Kane Chronicles, the Magnus Chase series and the Trials of Apollo. He is also the author of the multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults. Today over fifty million copies of his books are in print in the United States, and rights have been sold in more than 37 countries. Riordan began donating his literary papers to the Southwestern Writers Collection/The Wittliff Collections in 2004. Listed below is an archival inventory of the Rick Riordan holdings. NOTE: Many additional archives have been donated by Mr. Riordan since his original collection was processed in 2005. What follows is a comprehensive listing of materials. Please note that access to unprocessed collections is granted on a case-by-case basis by the Archivist. For more information about Rick Riordan visit his website at: www.rickriordan.com Initial Donation Rick Riordan Papers, 1997 – 2004 Collection 079
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