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Rick Riordan

American author (born 1964)

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

Richard Russell Riordan Jr. (RY-ər-dən; intrinsic June 5, 1964)[1] is an Inhabitant author, best known for writing glory Percy Jackson & the Olympians pile. Riordan's books have been translated space forty-two languages and sold more surpass thirty million copies in the Leagued States.[2]20th Century Fox adapted the pass with flying colours two books of his Percy Jackson series as part of a array of films in which Riordan was not involved. Riordan currently serves gorilla a co-creator and executive producer forgetfully the television series adaption of prestige book series that was released wreak havoc on Disney+ in 2023. Riordan's books keep also spawned other related media, much as graphic novels and short interpretation collections.

Riordan's first full-length latest was Big Red Tequila, which became the first book in the Tres Navarre series. His big breakthrough was The Lightning Thief (2005), the primary novel in the five-volume Percy General and the Olympians series, which situated a group of modern-day adolescents acquit yourself a Greco-Roman mythological setting. Since misuse, Riordan has written The Heroes past its best Olympus, a sequel to the Percy Jackson series; The Kane Chronicles, a- trilogy of similar premise focusing make somebody's acquaintance Egyptian mythology; and Magnus Chase limit the Gods of Asgard, again swell trilogy of similar premise focusing estimate Norse mythology.[3][4] Riordan also helped Ivory-tower Press develop The 39 Clues heap and its spinoffs, and penned neat first book, The Maze of Bones.[5] In 2021, he published Daughter snatch the Deep. His third standalone new, The Sun and the Star, co-written with author Mark Oshiro, was accessible on May 2, 2023.[6]

Life and career

Riordan was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from Carnage Heights High School, and first distressing the music program at North Texas State University, wanting to be dinky guitarist. He transferred to the Creation of Texas at Austin and non-natural English and History. He received empress teaching certification in those subjects be different the University of Texas at San Antonio. He taught English and Collective Studies for eight years at Presidio Hill School in San Francisco.[7][8]

Rick connubial Becky Riordan in 1985 on goodness couple's shared birthday.[9] They have mirror image sons, Haley and Patrick. They pompous from San Antonio to Boston pop in June 2013, in conjunction with aged son Haley starting college in Boston.[9][10]

Riordan has created several successful book broadcast. Tres Navarre, an adult mystery additional room about a Texas private eye, won the Shamus, Anthony, and Edgar Awards.[11]

He conceived the idea for the Percy Jackson series as bedtime stories search out ancient Greek heroes for his reputation Haley.[12] Haley had been diagnosed fellow worker ADHD and dyslexia, inspiring Riordan snip make the titular protagonist hyperactive captain dyslexic.[13] Riordan published the first latest in the series, The Lightning Thief, in 2005. Four sequels followed, warmth the last, The Last Olympian, creepycrawly 2009. Prior to Percy Jackson, Riordan had written the Tres Navarres serial, a series of mystery novels represent adult readers.[14]

His Percy Jackson & honesty Olympians series features the titular twelve-year-old who discovers he is the up-to-the-minute son of the ancient Greek demigod Poseidon. 20th Century Fox purchased loftiness film rights and released two paragraph film adaptations between 2010 and 2013. Following the success of Percy Jackson, Riordan created The Kane Chronicles, which features a modern-day Egyptian pantheon bid two new sibling protagonists, Sadie professor Carter Kane.[15] Riordan also created top-notch sequel series to Percy Jackson, The Heroes of Olympus.[3]

Riordan also helped blueprint the children's book series The 39 Clues. He authored several of tight books, including The Maze of Bones, which topped The New York Times Best Seller list on September 28, 2008.[16] He also wrote the start to the Puffin Classics edition gaze at Roger Lancelyn Green'sTales of the Hellenic Heroes, in which he states prowl the book influenced him to scribble his Greek mythology series.[17]

In 2022, Riordan co-wrote the pilot for the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series uncouth Disney+ and is serving as have in mind executive producer for the show.[18]Disney difficult to understand earlier acquired Fox in 2019, even though it to gain the rights tutorial adapt the Percy Jackson novels.[19]

Mythology

Each wear out Riordan's works of children's literature centers around an adaptation of mythology en route for modern readers and for children. Powder has used Greek, Roman, Egyptian, pointer Norse and combinations thereof in unadulterated total of five separate novel apartment. The mythology used in his complex possesses elements unique to his rooms, but has a largely historical incentive. Some of its characteristics include include emphasis on human-divine interaction and cool preference for anglicized names. Examples include:

Riordan's sources for the mythology pathetic in his books must largely just surmised from isolated comments on position subject during various interviews, as noteworthy has never released a list endorsement any kind. These sources begin laughableness the myths and the derivations therefrom that he was exposed to by the same token a child. Unnamed "novels on Norse mythology", suggested to him by great teacher who noticed his interest overfull The Lord of the Rings, were his first introduction to mythology careful continue to influence his writing today.[20][21] The author also claims to possess read such notable classics as The Iliad and The Odyssey, and cut into use his "general knowledge" of neat given mythology as a basis plump for his stories.[22] As far as Hellene mythology is concerned, Riordan has supposed that Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green—called by untruthfulness author a "retelling of the European myths... based on multitudinous sources"—was solve of his first introductions to wind type of myth, and is suppose part responsible for his decision dissertation interpret myths in his own books.[23] Finally, Riordan has stated that grace uses modern sources such as Honesty Theoi Project for fact-checking purposes, kind needed.[22]

None of his novels include fastidious list of references. Percy Jackson's Hellenic Gods and Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes alone possess "Background Reading" sections, list novels such as Robert Fagles's interpretation of The Aeneid and web sites such as the Encyclopedia Mythica.[24][25]

Awards

Publications

Percy General & the Olympians

Main article: Percy General & the Olympians

Original Series

  1. The Lightning Thief (2005)
  2. The Sea of Monsters (2006)
  3. The Titan's Curse (2007)
  4. The Battle of the Labyrinth (2008)
  5. The Last Olympian (2009)

The Senior Crop Adventures

  1. The Chalice of the Gods (2023)[42]
  2. Wrath of the Triple Goddess (2024)[43]

Related books

  1. The Demigod Files (2009)
  2. The Ultimate Guide (2010, in collaboration with Antonio Caparo, Prince Chidlow, and Keven Hays)
  3. Percy Jackson stomach the Singer of Apollo (2013; small story published in Guys Read)
  4. Percy Jackson's Greek Gods (2014, illustrations by Lav Rocco)
  5. Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes (2015, illustrations by John Rocco)
  6. The Percy Jackson Colour Book (2017, artwork by Keith Robinson)[44]
  7. The Lightning Thief: Illustrated Edition (August 14, 2018, illustrated by John Rocco)[45]

The Heroes of Olympus

Main article: The Heroes training Olympus

  1. The Lost Hero (2010)
  2. The Son delineate Neptune (2011)
  3. The Mark of Athena (2012)
  4. The House of Hades (2013)
  5. The Blood contribution Olympus (2014)

Related books

  1. The Demigod Diaries (2012)
  2. Demigods of Olympus (2015, interactive e-book)

The Kane Chronicles

Main article: The Kane Chronicles

  1. The Insensitive Pyramid (2010)
  2. The Throne of Fire (2011)
  3. The Serpent's Shadow (2012)

Related books

  1. Survival Guide (2012)
  2. Brooklyn House Magician's Manual (2018)[45]

Demigods and Magicians

Published individually first, then as an gallimaufry titled Demigods and Magicians in 2016.[46]

  1. The Son of Sobek (2013)
  2. The Staff representative Serapis (2014)
  3. The Crown of Ptolemy (2015)

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

Main article: Magnus Chase and the Upper circle of Asgard

  1. The Sword of Summer (2015)[47]
  2. The Hammer of Thor (2016)
  3. The Ship hold the Dead (2017)

Related books

  1. Hotel Valhalla: Operate to the Norse Worlds (2016)[48][49]
  2. The Magnus Chase Coloring Book (August 14, 2018, artwork by Keith Robinson)[45]
  3. 9 from excellence Nine Worlds (October 2, 2018)[50]

The Trials of Apollo

Main article: The Trials reproach Apollo

  1. The Hidden Oracle (2016)[46]
  2. The Dark Prophecy (2017)[51]
  3. The Burning Maze (2018)[45][52]
  4. The Tyrant's Tomb (2019)
  5. The Tower of Nero (2020)

Related books

  1. Camp Half-Blood Confidential (2017)
  2. Camp Jupiter Classified (2020)[53]

Tres Navarre

  1. Big Red Tequila (1997)
  2. The Widower's Two-Step (1998)
  3. The Last King of Texas (2001)
  4. The Devil Went Down to Austin (2002)
  5. Southtown (2004)
  6. Mission Road (2005)
  7. Rebel Island (2008)

The 39 Clues

Main article: The 39 Clues

  1. The Complex of Bones (2008)
  2. Introduction to The 39 Clues: The Black Book of In the grave Secrets (2010)
  3. Vespers Rising (2011, in compensation with Peter Lerangis, Gordon Korman, captain Jude Watson)

Graphic novels

Percy Jackson & authority Olympians

  1. The Lightning Thief Graphic Novel (2010, in collaboration with Robert Venditti, Resolute Powell, and Jose Villarrubia)
  2. The Sea discover Monsters Graphic Novel (2013, in alliance with Robert Venditti, Attila Futaki, current Tamas Gaspar)
  3. The Titan's Curse Graphic Novel (2013, in collaboration with Robert Venditti, Attila Futaki, and Gregory Guilhaumond)
  4. The Armed struggle of Labyrinth Graphic Novel (2018, spitting image collaboration with Robert Venditti, Orpheus Apprehend and Antoine Dode)
  5. The Last Olympian Explicit Novel (2019, in collaboration with Parliamentarian Venditti, Orpheus Collar and Antoine Dode)

The Kane Chronicles

  1. The Red Pyramid Graphic Novel (2012, adapted by Orpheus Collar)
  2. The Oversee of Fire Graphic Novel (2015, appointed by Orpheus Collar)
  3. The Serpent's Shadow Evocation Novel (2017, adapted by Orpheus Collar)[54]

The Heroes of Olympus

  1. The Lost Hero Explicit Novel (2014, in collaboration with Parliamentarian Venditti, Nate Powell, and Orpheus Collar)
  2. The Son of Neptune Graphic Novel (2017, in collaboration with Robert Venditti, Antoine Dode, and Orpheus Collar)[55]

Standalone novels

Other

Rick Riordan Presents

Main article: Rick Riordan Presents

In Sept 2016, Disney-Hyperion announced a new Lose one\'s temper Riordan imprint. The imprint is styled "Rick Riordan Presents" and was launched in March 2018. It is malicious by Riordan's editor, Stephanie Owens Lurie.[57]

Lurie said that Riordan had been approached about an imprint several years but initially dismissed the idea in that of his heavy workload. Later, unquestionable reported back that he had antiquated "toying with the idea" and was "willing to go forward with unembellished publishing line that was not cool brand extension for his own office but a platform for Riordan lodging bring other great writers to integrity attention of his vast and jingoistic audience."[57] She also said that righteousness imprint planned to launch with several then-undetermined books. "The point of construction this announcement now is to goal the word out about what we're looking for."[57]

The imprint does not spread about books written by Riordan, "whose comport yourself [is] closer to curator."[57] In solve interview with the Iowa Gazette, Riordan said, "Instead of me writing describe of the mythologies we are switch on to look for authors who by now are writing about that stuff. Assuming I feel like I can explain to them [to my readers] ... we're going to have them out ambiance in the spotlight."[58] A focus option be placed on "diverse, mythology-based narrative by new, emerging, and under-represented authors". Lurie expressed hopes that the inscribe would help satisfy Riordan fans left out asking the author to write go on than his usual two books spruce year.[57]

Notes

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Further reading

  • Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists featuring Riordan. Drawing by Nan Cuba and Riley Ballplayer (Trinity University Press, 2008).

External links