Rick Riordan

About Rick Riordan

Author of multiple award-winning and bestselling fantasy novels in the United States. Percy Jackson & the Olympians, The Kane Chronicles, the Tres Navarre volumes, and The Maze of Bones are among his best-known works.

Richard Russell Riordan Jr. is an American author. He is known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, about a teenager named Percy Jackson who discovers he is a son of the Greek god Poseidon. Riordan's books have been translated into forty-two languages and sold more than thirty million copies in the US. 20th Century Fox adapted the first two books of his Percy Jackson series as part of a series of films. His books have spawned 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, 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 Kane Chronicles trilogy and The Heroes of Olympus series.

Nationality	American
Occupation	Novelist
Alma mater	University of Texas at San Antonio
Notable works	Percy Jackson & the Olympians pentalogy, The Kane Chronicles trilogy, The Heroes of Olympus pentalogy, The Maze of Bones, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy, Tres Navarre series, The Trials of Apollo pentalogy
Born	Richard Russell Riordan Jr, June 5, 1964, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Genre	Fantasy, detective fiction, mythology
Language	English
Spouse	Becky Riordan
Children	2
Years active	1997–present

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Trivia

He is a two-time Mark Twain Award winner (2008 & 2009), as well as winner of the Children's Choice Books Awards for Author of the Year in 2011. 

Rick Riordan before fame

He taught social studies and English in a San Francisco high school for over a decade after graduating from the University of Texas. Big Red Tequila, the first novel in his Tres Navarre series, was released in 1997.

Achievement of Rick Riordan

He has won the Mark Twain Award twice (in 2008 and 2009) and the Children's Choice Books Award for Author of the Year in 2011.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$35 Million

Rick Riordan family life

He was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. With his two kids, Haley and Patrick, he and his wife, Becky, eventually moved in Boston, Massachusetts.

Associations of Rick Riordan

In the Percy Jackson films, he invented the character Percy Jackson, who is played by Logan Lerman.

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Family Members

Name	Relationship	Net worth	Profession
Patrick Riordan	Children		N/A
Haley Riordan	Children	$1 Million - $2 Million (Approx.)	Celebrity Family Member
Becky Riordan	Spouse		N/A