Rick Riordan

**Richard Russell "Rick" Riordan, Jr.**  (born June 5, 1964) is an American author best known for the *Percy Jackson and the Olympians* series. He also wrote the *Tres Navarre* mystery series for adults and helped to edit *Demigods and Monsters*, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series. He helped develop the 10 books in  *The 39 Clues* series, published by Scholastic Corporation, and wrote the first book in the series, *The Maze of Bones*.

## Life and career 
Riordan was born in San Antonio, Texas. 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. He was awarded St. Mary's Hall's first Master Teacher Award in 2002.

Riordan is the multi-award-winning author of the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults; his *The Maze of Bones* reached number one on the New York Times Best Seller list on September 28, 2008. His *Percy Jackson and the Olympians* series features a twelve-year-old boy who discovers he is the modern-day son of an ancient Greek god. Film rights were purchased by Twentieth Century Fox and a feature film was released on February 12, 2010. In January 2022, Disney+ gave the green light for a TV Show adaptation of the series. As of December 2022, more than half of the first book has been filmed. Riordan lives in San Antonio with his wife and their two sons. Recently, Riordan has stated that he is working on a new series based upon the Egyptian pantheon, which then turned out to be *The Kane Chronicles*, with the first book, *The Red Pyramid*, to be released May 4, 2010. He also won 13 awards the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original, the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Middle Grade & Children's ( 5 times 2011-2015 ), Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original ( 5 times 2011-2015 ), Hampshire Book Award, and the Shamus award for best first PI novel!

## Published books 
### *Percy Jackson and the Olympians* Series 
(Film: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief )
* *The Lightning Thief* – June 28, 2005 hardcover, March 21, 2006 paperback
* *The Sea of Monsters* – May 3, 2006
* ''The Titan's Curse* – May 1, 2007
* *The Battle of the Labyrinth* – U.S.A. May 6, 2008, U.K. July 3, 2008
* *The Last Olympian* – May 5, 2009

#### *Percy Jackson and the Olympians Companion Books* 
* *The Demigod Files* – February 10, 2009
* The Demigod Diaries – August  14, 2012
* *Demigods and Monsters* – February 10, 2009
* *The Ultimate Guide* – January 19, 2010

### *The 39 Clues* 
(Series: 39 clues)
* *The Maze of Bones* – September 9, 2008
Note: This is the first and last book series written by Rick Riordan, the rest of the books were written by 2 other authors with him.

### *Tres Navarre* Series 
* *Big Red Tequila* – June 1997
* *Widower's Two-Step* – June 1998
* *The Last King of Texas* – January 2000
* *The Devil Went Down to Austin* – June 2001
* *Southtown* – April 2004
* *Mission Road* – June 2005
* *Rebel Island*– August 2007

### *The Kane Chronicles* series 
* The Red Pyramid – May 4, 2010
* 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''

## References 
To know more about the author and his books go to www.rickriordan.co.uk

## Other websites
* Official Rick Riordan Site
* Official Percy Jackson UK Site 
* Miss Erin interview
* Starred Review of The Last Olympian 
* Teen Libris interview