Rick Riordan, Age, Family, Wife, Career, Books, Awards, Interview

Rick Riordan Biography

Rick Riordan whose full names are Richard Russel Riordan Jr. is an American author. He is known for writing the Percy Jackson and Olympians series. His books have been translated into 42 languages and have sold more than 30 million copies. He was born on 5th June 1964. The 2oth century has already adapted two of his Percy Jackson Series.

Rick Riordan Age/Family

Rick was born on June 5th, 1964 to Lyn Belisle his mother and Rick Riordan his father.Rick was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. Both of his parents were teachers his mum was a musician and also an artist. His dad was a ceramicist.

Rick Riordan Wife/Children

Rick is married to Becky Riordan they got married in 1985. They have two children, Haley Riordan and Patrick Riordan. His son Haley was the one who inspired him to write the Percy Jackson Series.

Rick Riordan Career

When Rick graduated from Alamo Heights High School he had attended a music program at North Texas State he wanted to be a guitarist. He later transferred to the University of Texas and studied English and History. He later came to teach English and Social Studies for eight years at Presidio Hill School in Francisco. His son Haley was the one who inspired him to write the Percy Jackson Series. As he suffers from ADHD and Dyslexia as all the demigods have ADHD and Dyslexia. Which got success in 2005 after which he created The Kane Chronicles. He, later on, helped create a children’s book series The 39 Clues. He wrote several books but mainly liked Greek Mythology.

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Rick Riordan Books

The Lightning Thief

2005

The Lost Hero

2010

The Sword of Summer

2015

The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid

2010

Percy Jackson and the Olympians 5-book Boxed Set

2009

The Hidden Oracle

2016Percy Jackson and the Olympians

2006

The Blood of Olympus

2014

The Throne of Fire

2011

The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo Book 4)

2019

The House of Hades

2013

The Burning Maze

2018

The Son of Neptune

2011

The Titan’s Curse

2007

The Mark of Athena

2012

The Battle of the Labyrinth

2008

The Dark Prophecy

2017

Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods

2014

The Ship of the Dead

2017

The Hammer of Thor

2016

The Serpent’s Shadow

2012

The Son of Sobek

2013

Demigods & Magicians

2015

The Demigod Files

2009

The Demigod Diaries

2012

Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes

2015

9 From the Nine Worlds: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

2018

Camp Half-Blood Confidential

2017

Rick Riordan Networth

He has a net worth of 35 million dollars which he has earned mostly from books. As he is one of the most paid authors in the world.

Rick Riordan Awards

1999 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original for The Widower’s Two-Step
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
2010 School Library Journal’s Best Book for The Red Pyramid
2011 Children’s Choice Book Awards: Author of the Year
2011 Children’s Choice Book Awards: Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year for The Red Pyramid
2011 Wyoming Soaring Eagle Book Award for The Last Olympian

2011 Milner Award for Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
2012 Indian Paintbrush Award for The Red Pyramid
2013 Best Fiction Book for Children in Bulgaria for The Mark of Athena
2017 Stonewall Book Award for Children’s literature for The Hammer of Thor

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Rick Riordan Interview

When your son was first diagnosed, aged 10 or so, was he anxious about what it meant?
He was. Before he was diagnosed he didn’t know why he hated school, but he did. He would crawl under the dining room table and refuse to do his homework. So I used Percy Jackson in the ways that myths have always been used, to explain things that are difficult to explain. To say: you see the world in a slightly different way.

Twenty books in, your characters must feel very real to you now
They do. Partly that’s because most of them are one way or another based on students I taught. Percy Jackson is a mix of my own sons and a lot of kids I knew over the years. He had lots of early adolescent sarcasm, but also a sense of wonder.

What age children did you teach?
All ages, but I gravitated toward kids about 11 to 14. If you are going to leave a lasting impression on children as a teacher, that is the critical time, I think.

One thing that struck me reading the books was that you started the series before the age of mobile technology and 24-hour distraction. Have you noticed a difference in your readers?
We have always been worried about things that are taking children away from reading. I’ve read newspaper articles from the 1920s going on about Dick Tracy on the radio taking kids away from books, and then it was television, and then arcade games, and now social media. I still see a huge appetite for stories. I wrote this series of books particularly for reluctant readers, but they still ask: “why was the last book only 450 pages long?”

You have been criticized in some quarters for your ironic Monty Python-ish take on the classical world. Does that bother you?
Monty Python was a huge influence on me but I’m hardly the first to modernise Greek myths. We live in a self-reflective age. It doesn’t seem enough any more to say “Zeus turned into a swan so he could seduce a woman”. I can hear my former students asking “Why a Swan?” I try to anticipate that skepticism and answer it with humor.

I read elsewhere that you started reading books yourself quite late, at 12 or 13?
Yes, for me that was when the light came on. I had a very supportive English teacher, she introduced me to The Lord of the Rings, the first book that wasn’t a chore. And she encouraged me to write. I try to impart to my readers the same kind of fire.

English teachers are in many ways the keepers of the flame…
They are, I don’t think there is a writer who didn’t have at least one great one.

Though the bad ones can put you off for ever…
I think there are two strains that run through the tradition of children’s literature in particular. One is the high-minded approach. I literally had parents say to me, my 13-year-old should be reading the Brontës – why are you giving them this? I love literature, but I think it does more harm than good to focus on what we think is important rather than trying to make books a conversation with children. My belief is if they do get interested in reading whatever it is, there is a chance they will read Jane Eyre at some point in their life.

One thing that strikes me about young teenage kids now is that they are much more accepting of difference. Your books seem very alive to that
I hope so. I remember being bullied as a child and how terrible it felt. One character in the books, Nico, is revealed to be gay. It caused a furore in certain sectors of American society but that was drowned out for me by the few letters I got from kids, saying thank you for letting me see myself in a book for the first time.

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Rick Riordan, Age, Family, Wife, Career, Books, Awards, Interview

Rick Riordan Biography