Rick Riordan

Biografie

Rick Riordan born on June 5, 1964 is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series for children, the #1 New York Times bestselling Kane Chronicles, the Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero, and the multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults.

For fifteen years, Rick taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. In 2002, Saint Mary's Hall honored him with the school's first Master Teacher Award.

His adult fiction has won the top three national awards in the mystery genre - the Edgar, the Anthony and the Shamus.

His first Percy Jackson book The Lightning Thief was a New York Times Notable Book for 2005. The Sea of Monsters was a Child Magazine Best Book for Children for 2006 and a national bestseller. The third title, The Titan's Curse, made the series a #1 New York Times bestseller, and the fourth title, The Battle of the Labyrinth, had a first printing of one million copies. The series concluded with The Last Olympian, which was also a major national bestseller. Rick is also the author of The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones and The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid, which are both #1 New York Times bestsellers.