Rick Riordan

For persons of a similar name, see Richard Riordan (disambiguation).

Rick Riordan
Riordan in 2018
Riordan in 2018
BornRichard Russell Riordan Jr.
(1964-06-05) June 5, 1964 (age 60)
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
Alma materUniversity of Texas at San Antonio
Genre
Years active1997–present
Notable works
SpouseBecky Riordan (m. 1985)
Children2
Signature
Website
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Richard Russell Riordan Jr. (/ˈraɪərdən/ RY-ər-dən; born June 5, 1964)[1] is an American author, best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. Riordan's books have been translated into forty-two languages and sold more than thirty million copies in the United States.[2] 20th Century Fox adapted the first two books of his Percy Jackson series as part of a series of films in which Riordan was not involved. Riordan currently serves as a co-creator and executive producer on the television series adaption of the book series that was released on Disney+ in 2023. Riordan's books have also spawned other related media, such as graphic novels and short story collections.

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 and the Olympians series, which placed a group of modern-day adolescents in a Greco-Roman mythological setting. Since then, Riordan has written The Heroes of Olympus, a sequel to the Percy Jackson series; The Kane Chronicles, a trilogy of similar premise focusing on Egyptian mythology; and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, again a trilogy of similar premise focusing on Norse mythology.[3][4] Riordan also helped Scholastic Press develop The 39 Clues series and its spinoffs, and penned its first book, The Maze of Bones.[5] In 2021, he published Daughter of the Deep. His third standalone novel, The Sun and the Star, co-written with author Mark Oshiro, was published on May 2, 2023.[6]

  1. ^ "Rick Riordan ID Card". Puffin Books. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  2. ^ Lodge, Sally (August 18, 2011). "First Printing of Three Million for New Percy Jackson Book". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on December 4, 2013. Retrieved August 18, 2015. There are 30 million copies in print in the U.S. of the novels in the author's three series for Disney-Hyperion: Percy Jackson & the Olympians, The Kane Chronicles, and The Heroes of Olympus—and the books have been translated into thirty-seven languages.
  3. ^ "Read an excerpt from new Rick Riordan". June 18, 2015. Archived from the original on August 11, 2015. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  4. ^ Springen, Karen (May 31, 2012). "Rick Riordan Makes His 'Mark'". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on October 11, 2012. Retrieved June 3, 2012. a cruise to the Baltic and Scandinavian countries last summer provided fodder for Riordan's upcoming Norse series
  5. ^ Italie, Hillel (September 1, 2008). "'Potter' publisher looks to promote next big thing". Fox News Channel. Archived from the original on January 24, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2009.
  6. ^ "The Sun and the Star". Kirkus Reviews. May 2, 2023. Archived from the original on May 30, 2023. Retrieved May 30, 2023.