Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan was born in San Antonio, Texas, United States on June 5th, 1964 and is the Young Adult Author. At the age of 59, Rick Riordan biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Richard Russell Riordan Jr. (born June 5, 1964) is an American author.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, about a twelve-year-old Percy Jackson who discovers he is a son of Greek God Poseidon.
His books have been translated into 42 languages and have sold more than 30 million copies in the United States.
The Percy Jackson series's first two books have been adapted as part of a series of films by twentieth Century Fox.
His books have appeared in various media, including graphic novels and short story collections. Big Red Tequila was Riordan's first full-length book, and it became the first book in the Tres Navarre series.
His breakthrough was the publication of The Lightning Thief (2005), the first book in the Percy Jackson series, which set a group of adolescents in a Greco-Roman mythological setting.
Riordan has written The Kane Chronicles trilogy and The Heroes of Olympus since then.
The Kane Chronicles (2010-2012) concentrated on Egyptian mythology; The Heroes of Olympus was the sequel to the Percy Jackson story.
Riordan was also a contributor to Scholastic Press' The 39 Clues series and its spinoffs, as well as penned its first book, The Maze of Bones (2008).
Three books in the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series, which are based on Norse mythology, have been his most recent publications.
In May 2016, The Unknown Oracle, his first book in the series The Trials of Apollo based on Greek mythology, was published.
Life and career
Riordan was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from Alamo Heights High School and first attended the music program at North Texas State University, aspiring to be a guitarist. He enrolled at the University of Texas and studied English and History. He obtained his teaching certificate at the University of Texas in San Antonio. At Presidio Hill School in San Francisco, he taught English and Social Studies for eight years.
On the couple's shared birthday in 1985, Rick married Becky Riordan. They have two sons, Haley and Patrick. In June 2013, they moved from San Antonio to Boston, together with their older son Haley, who attended Boston College.
Riordan has written several hit book series. The Shamus, Anthony, and Edgar Awards were awarded to Tres Navarre, an adult mystery film about a Texas private eye.
He conceived the Percy Jackson story as bedtime stories about ancient Greek heroes for his son Haley. Haley had been diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, triggering Riordan to make the titular protagonist hyperactive and dyslexic. In 2005, Riordan published The Lightning Thief, the first book in the series. Four sequels followed, with the last, The Last Olympian, in 2009. Riordan had written the Tres Navarres series, a series of mystery novels for adult readers, prior to Percy Jackson.
The titular twelve-year-old discovers he is the modern-day son of the ancient Greek god Poseidon in Percy Jackson & the Olympians. Between 2010 and 2013, 20th Century Fox acquired the film rights and released two feature film adapations. Following Percy Jackson's success, Riordan created The Kane Chronicles, which features a modern-day Egyptian pantheon and two new sibling characters, Sadie and Carter Kane. The Heroes of Olympus is also a Riordan sequel to Percy Jackson's The Heroes of Olympus.
Riordan also contributed to the creation of The 39 Clues, the children's book series. On September 28, 2008, he wrote several of its books, including The Maze of Bones, which debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list. He also contributed to the Puffin Classics edition of Roger Lancelyn Green's Tales of the Greek Heroes, in which he claims that the book inspired him to write his Greek mythology book.
Riordan co-wrote the pilot for the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series on Disney+ in 2022 and is currently serving as an executive producer for the series. Disney had previously owned Fox in 2019, allowing it to publish Percy Jackson's stories.
Awards
- 1998 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel and Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original for Big Red Tequila
- 1999 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original for The Widower's Two-Step
- 2008 Mark Twain Award for The Lightning Thief
- 2009 Mark Twain Award for The Sea of Monsters
- 2009 Rebecca Caudill Award for The Lightning Thief
- 2010 School Library Journal's Best Book for The Red Pyramid
- 2011 Children's Choice Book Awards: Author of the Year
- 2011 Children's Choice Book Awards: Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year for The Red Pyramid
- 2011 Wyoming Soaring Eagle Book Award for The Last Olympian
- 2011 Milner Award for Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
- 2012 Indian Paintbrush Award for The Red Pyramid
- 2013 Best Fiction Book for Children in Bulgaria for The Mark of Athena
- 2017 Stonewall Book Award for Children's literature for The Hammer of Thor