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    Richard Yancey is an American author who writes works of suspense, fantasy, and science fiction aimed at young adults.

  2. NY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR RICK YANCEY. Author of The 5th Wave, the Monstrumologist series and the Alfred Kropp adventures. WHAT'S NEW. Click here to watch the book trailer for The Infinite Sea! Rick sat down with The Wall Street Journal to discuss The 5th Wave series!

    • Where I Am
    • How I Got Here
    • First Interest in Writing
    • First Book
    • Writing Full-Time
    • Family Man

    Rick is the author of fifteen novels and a memoir. His books have been published in over thirty languages and have earned numerous accolades and awards from around the world. His young adult novel, The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, was named a "Best Book of the Year" by Publishers Weekly and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. In 2010...

    Rick was born in Miami, Florida on a Sunday. Three days later, his new parents drove 225 miles from their hometown of Lakeland to meet him. Their first impression must have been all right, because they decided to give him a home and raise him the best way they knew how. They named him John Richard, but nobody ever called him John except teachers on...

    Rick wrote his first short-story for an assignment in his seventh-grade English class. He wrote the story in longhand and his mother, who was a legal secretary, typed it for him. He got an A. Rick was not the worst student at Crystal Lake Junior High, but he wasn't the best either. He didn't make a lot of A's, so this one meant a lot plus the fact ...

    Rick taught some English classes, did some acting and directing at a local community theater, even returned to the ranch for a while, the swampy breeding grounds of his elaborate daydreams. In 1991, he answered a newspaper ad for a government job that turned out to be with the Internal Revenue Service. He worked there for the next twelve years, fir...

    He left his job in 2004 to write fulltime. He wrote Confessions of a Tax Collector about his days at the IRS. He wrote the Highly Effective Detective series about a bumbling PI based in Knoxville. He wrote the Alfred Kropp series about a big kid who saves the world with King Arthur's sword, Excalibur. Then he wrote The Monstrumologist series, in wh...

    Now he's back in his native state with his true love and youngest son and a two-year old doodle named Max that he now wishes he had named Yankee or maybe Ramen. When he isn't daydreaming, he likes long walks with his wife and taking trips to Georgia's Golden Isles and doing projects around the house because writing doesn't seem like real work, or a...

  3. Rick Yancey has 34 books on Goodreads with 1556770 ratings. Rick Yanceys most popular book is The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1).

  4. May 7, 2013 · The 5th Wave is a young adult science fiction novel written by American author Rick Yancey. It was published on May 7, 2013 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. The novel is the first in The 5th Wave trilogy, followed by The Infinite Sea.

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  5. May 4, 2015 · RickYancey. Genre. Mystery & Thrillers, Young Adult, Nonfiction. edit data. aka Richard Yancey. Rick is a native Floridian and a graduate of Roosevelt University in Chicago. He earned a B.A. in English which he put to use as a field officer for the Internal Revenue Service.

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  7. Rick Yancey is the author of the New York Times bestseller The 5th Wave, The Infinite Sea, The Last Star, several adult novels, and the memoir Confessions of a Tax Collector. His first young-adult novel, The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal.

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