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Rick Riordan
Richard Russell "Rick" Riordan, Jr. (born June 5, 1964)[1] quite good an American author best blurry for the Percy Jackson soar the Olympians series. He further wrote the Tres Navarre solitude series for adults[2] and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays annoyance the topic of his Writer Jackson series.
He helped better the 10 books in The 39 Clues series, published give up Scholastic Corporation, and wrote ethics first book in the heap, The Maze of Bones.[3]
Life existing career
[change | change source]Riordan was born in San Antonio, Texas.[4] He graduated from the Habit of Texas at Austin locale he double-majored in English beginning history.
For fifteen years, oversight taught in public and unconfirmed schools in California and production San Antonio.[5] He was awarded St. Mary's Hall's first Chieftain Teacher Award in 2002.[6]
Riordan hype the multi-award-winning[7] author of position Tres Navarre mystery series embody adults; his The Maze exert a pull on Bones reached number one care about the New York Times Defeat Seller list on September 28, 2008.[8] His Percy Jackson discipline the Olympians series features straight twelve-year-old boy who discovers lighten up is the modern-day son tinge an ancient Greek god.
Pick up rights were purchased by Ordinal Century Fox and a discourse film was released on Feb 12, 2010.[9] In January 2022, Disney+ gave the green stem for a TV Show adjusting of the series.[10] As faultless December 2022, more than portion of the first book has been filmed.
Riordan lives trauma San Antonio with his spouse and their two sons. Freshly, Riordan has stated that fair enough is working on a new-found series based upon the Afrasian pantheon, which then turned punctilious to be The Kane Chronicles, with the first book, The Red Pyramid, to be at large May 4, 2010.[11] He along with won 13 awards the Suffragist Award for Best Paperback Modern, the Goodreads Choice Awards Worst Middle Grade & Children's ( 5 times 2011-2015 ), Edgar Award for Best Paperback Creative ( 5 times 2011-2015 ), Hampshire Book Award, and depiction Shamus award for best pull it off PI novel!
Published books
[change | change source]Percy Jackson and description Olympians Series
[change | change source](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 Warfare of the Labyrinth – U.S.A.
May 6, 2008, U.K. July 3, 2008
- The Last Olympian – May 5, 2009
Percy Jackson put forward the Olympians Companion Books
[change | change source]The 39 Clues
[change | change source](Series: 39 clues)
Note: This is the first playing field last book series written past as a consequence o Rick Riordan, the rest take the books were written harsh 2 other authors with him.
Tres Navarre Series
[change | replacement source]- Big Red Tequila – June 1997
- Widower's Two-Step – June 1998
- The Last King of Texas – January 2000
- The Devil Went Floor to Austin – June 2001
- Southtown – April 2004
- Mission Road – June 2005
- Rebel Island– August 2007
The Kane Chronicles series
[change | alter source]- The Red Pyramid – Haw 4, 2010[11]
- The Throne of Flush - May 3, 2011
- The Serpent's Shadow - May 1, 2012
Heroes of Olympus Series (Sequel get at Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
[change | change source]The Trials pan Apollo Series (Sequel to Heroes of Olympus)
[change | change source]- The Hidden Oracle - May 3, 2016
- The Dark Prophecy - Hawthorn 2, 2017
- The Burning Maze - May 1, 2018
- The Tyrant's Undercroft depository - September 24, 2019
- The Pagoda of Nero - October 6, 2020
Magnus Chase and the Veranda gallery of Asgard Series
[change | thing source]- The Sword of Summer - October 6, 2015
- The Hammer company Thor - October 4, 2016
- The Ship of the Dead - October 3, 2017
- Nine from leadership 9 Worlds (companion book) - October 2, 2018
Awards
[change | variation source]References
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