Occupation Novelist Name Rick Riordan Alma mater University of Texas | Nationality United States Language English Role Author | |
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Born Richard Russell Riordan, Jr.
June 5, 1964 (age 59)
San Antonio, Texas ( 1964-06-05 ) Genre Fantasy, detective fiction, mythology Notable works Percy Jackson & the Olympians pentalogy
The Kane Chronicles trilogy
The Heroes of Olympus pentalogy
The Maze of Bones
Tres Navarre Series Children Patrick Riordan, Haley Riordan Awards Goodreads Choice Awards Best Middle Grade & Children's Parents Rick Riordan Sr., Lyn Belisle Movies Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Books The Lightning Thief, The Sword of Summer, The Sea of Monsters, The Lost Hero, The Blood of Olympus Similar People Cassandra Clare, J K Rowling, Logan Lerman, Suzanne Collins, Veronica Roth Profiles | ||
Rick riordan the origins of percy
Richard Russell Riordan Jr. (; born June 5, 1964), better known as Rick Riordan, is an American author. He is known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, about a twelve-year-old boy who discovers he is a son of Poseidon. His books have been translated into 42 languages and sold more than 30 million copies in the US. Twentieth Century Fox has adapted the first two books of his Percy Jackson series as part of a series of films. His books have spawned related media, such as graphic novels and short story collections.
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- Rick riordan the origins of percy
- Rick riordan 2009 national book festival
- Life and career
- Awards
- Rick Riordan Presents
- References
Riordan's first full-length novel was Big Red Tequila, which became the first book in the Tres Navarre series. His big breakthrough was The Lightning Thief (2005), the first novel in the five-volume Percy Jackson series, which placed a group of adolescents in a Greco-Roman mythological setting. Since then, Riordan has written The Kane Chronicles trilogy and The Heroes of Olympus series. The Kane Chronicles (2010-2012) focused on Egyptian mythology; The Heroes of Olympus was the sequel to the Percy Jackson series. Riordan also helped Scholastic Press develop The 39 Clues series and its spinoffs, and penned its first book, The Maze of Bones (2008). His most recent publications are two books in the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series, based on Norse mythology. The first book of his The Trials of Apollo series based on Greek mythology, The Hidden Oracle, was released in May 2016.
Rick riordan 2009 national book festival
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, wanting to be a guitarist. He transferred to the University of Texas in Austin and studied English and History; he received his teaching certification in those subjects from the University of Texas in San Antonio. He taught English and Social Studies for eight years at Presidio Hill School in San Francisco.
Rick married Becky Riordan, originally from the East Coast, in 1985 on the couple's shared birthday. They moved from San Antonio to Boston in June 2013, in conjunction with older son Patrick starting college in Boston. Haley Riordan inspired the Percy Jackson series as a bedtime story.
Riordan has created several successful book series. Tres Navarre, an adult mystery series about a Texan private eye, won the Shamus, Anthony, and Edgar Awards.
He conceived the idea for the Percy Jackson series as bedtime stories about ancient Greek heroes for his son Haley. Haley had been diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, inspiring Riordan to make the titular protagonist ADHD and dyslexic. Riordan published the first novel in the series, The Lightning Thief , in 2005. Four sequels followed, with the last, The Last Olympian in 2009. Prior to Percy Jackson, Riordan had written the Tres Navarres series, a series of mystery novels for adult readers.
His Percy Jackson and the Olympians series features the titular twelve-year-old who discovers he is the modern-day son of the ancient Greek god Poseidon. Twentieth Century Fox purchased the film rights and released a feature film in 2010. Following the success of Percy Jackson, Riordan created The Kane Chronicles, which features a modern-day Egyptian pantheon and two new sibling protagonists, Sadie and Carter Kane. Riordan also created a sequel series to Percy Jackson, The Heroes of Olympus. Riordan also helped create the children's book series The 39 Clues; he authored several of its books, including The Maze of Bones, which topped The New York Times Best Seller list on September 28, 2008. He also wrote the introduction to the Puffin Classics edition of Roger Lancelyn Green's Tales of the Greek Heroes, in which he states that the book influenced him to write his Greek mythology series.
Awards
Rick Riordan Presents
In September of 2016, Disney-Hyperion announced a new Rick Riordan imprint. The imprint will be called "Rick Riordan Presents", and is planned for a July 2018 launch. It will be headed by Riordan's editor, Stephanie Owens Lurie.
Lurie said that Riordan had been approached about an imprint several years ago, but initially dismissed the idea because of his heavy workload. Later, he reported back that he had been "toying with the idea", and was "willing to go forward with a publishing line that was not a brand extension for his own work but a platform for Riordan to bring other great writers to the attention of his vast and loyal audience." She also said that the imprint is planned to launch with two as-yet undetermined books. "The point of making this announcement now is to get the word out about what we’re looking for.”
The imprint will not publish books written by Riordan, "whose role will be closer to curator". In an interview with the Iowa Gazette, Riordan said, "instead of me writing all of the mythologies we are going to look for authors who already are writing about that stuff. If I feel like I can recommend them [to my readers] ... we’re going to have them out here in the spotlight." A focus will be placed on "diverse, mythology-based fiction by new, emerging, and under-represented authors". Lurie expressed hopes that the imprint will help satisfy Riordan fans, without asking the author to write more than his usual two books a year.