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Rick Riordan has 220 books on Goodreads with 23036276 ratings. Rick Riordan's most popular series is Camp Half-Blood Chronicles.
- Rick Riordan Biography
- The Early Life of Rick Riordan
- His Work Life Before Becoming An Author
- Writing Career
- Books Turned Into Films
- Awards That Rick Has Won
- Some of The Books in Riordan’s Mystery Series
- Rick Riordan’s Personal Life
- San Diego Comic-Con
- Other Books He Has Written
Books are something that everybody loves. They take you to a world far, far away where you can live various lives. In the world of mystery books, there is only one who can be king of the mystery genre. This is especially true for the author who can go from writing critically acclaimed fantasy books, and then begin an anthology series that has fans ...
He was born Richard Russell Riordan Jr. in San Antonio, Texas. He was born and raised in San Antonio, where he went to Alamo Heights high school. Riordan ended up graduating at the top of his class in 1982. He went to college, attending the University of Texas. Riordan ended up moving to San Francisco, California. This is where he would begin a sim...
Rick ended up teaching social studies to high school kids in California. He taught at the Presidio high school in San Francisco, California. Rick didn’t start writing novels until 1997, when he was 33 years old.
His first novel was published in the late 1990s, and it was this series that started Rick on his way of becoming a successful author. The series he wrote was called Tres Navarres. The first book in the series was written in 1997, and the last was finished in 2008. There was a total of seven novels written in that series. The books are in the myster...
Riordan’s critically acclaimed fantasy series, Percy Jackson, has been turned into a big name film series. The film rights were quickly bought in 2010 by the movie company Twentieth Century Fox. The first movie, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Lightning Thief, was released in February of 2010. The last movie, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters was rel...
Rick Riordan has won a number of awards since 1998. These awards have been for both his Percy Jackson series, and his adult mystery books series, Tres Navarres. Some of the awards he has won include the Shamus award and the Anthony award in 1998 for his novel, Big Red Tequila. He has also won the 2010 School Library Journal’s Best Book for The Red ...
Tres Navarres was well received by mystery fans when the books first debuted in the late 1990s. Many of the books were well received and became fan favorites. Several of the books even garnered Riordan awards. These books include The Big Red Tequila, South Town, Mission Road, Rebel Island, and The Widower’s Two-Step.
Rick Riordan leads a fairly private personal life. Many people don’t know much about his life outside of the fact he was born in 1964, on June 5th. Rick has been married to a woman named Becky since the 1990s. He has two children, both sons, and their names are Haley and Patrick. He and his family live in Boston, Massachusetts. It has been said tha...
Rick Riordan ended up being invited to be a guest to the San Diego Comic-con International in 2010, right as the first installment of his book turned film series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, started to garner success. He sat on a panel where he was asked questions by fans, and lucky fans got to meet him and take photos wit...
Besides the adult mystery series, the upcoming anthology debuting in 2015, and the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Rick Riordan has also written a few standalone books, as well as another series called the Kane Chronicles. Like his Percy Jackson and Tres Navarres series, the Kane Chronicles was well received by new and old fans alike. A tot...
Rick Riordan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over twenty novels for young readers, including the Percy Jackson series, and the Kane Chronicles.
Explore the books by Rick Riordan, the bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and other mythology-based adventures. Find out the latest news, updates, and events for his upcoming and past titles.
- The Lost Hero. Jason has a problem. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she’s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.”
- The Son of Neptune. In The Lost Hero, three demigods named Jason, Piper, and Leo made their first visit to Camp Half-Blood, where they inherited a blood-chilling quest
- The Mark of Athena. Annabeth is terrified. Just when she’s about to be reunited with Percy—after six months of being apart, thanks to Hera—it looks like Camp Jupiter is preparing for war.
- The House of Hades. At the conclusion of The Mark of Athena, Annabeth and Percy tumble into a pit leading straight to the Underworld. The other five demigods have to put aside their grief and follow Percy’s instructions to find the mortal side of the Doors of Death.
Rick Riordan is best known for his bestselling young reader book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians and award-winning adult mysteries featuring San Antonio P.I. Tres Navarre.
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