Introduction to The 39 Clues: The Black Book of Buried Secrets (2010).2017 Stonewall Book Award for Children's literature for The Hammer of Thor īibliography Percy Jackson & the Olympians.2013 Best Fiction Book for Children in Bulgaria for The Mark of Athena.2012 Indian Paintbrush Award for The Red Pyramid.2011 Milner Award for Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.2011 Wyoming Soaring Eagle Book Award for The Last Olympian.2011 Children's Choice Book Awards: Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year for The Red Pyramid.2011 Children's Choice Book Awards: Author of the Year.2010 School Library Journal's Best Book for The Red Pyramid.2009 Rebecca Caudill Award for The Lightning Thief.2009 Mark Twain Award for The Sea of Monsters.2008 Mark Twain Award for The Lightning Thief.
1999 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original for The Widower's Two-Step. 1998 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel and Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original for Big Red Tequila. He also wrote the introduction to the Puffin Classics edition of Roger Lancelyn Green's Tales of the Greek Heroes, in which he states that the book influenced him to write his Greek mythology series. He authored several of its books, including The Maze of Bones, which topped The New York Times Best Seller list on September 28, 2008. Riordan also helped create the children's book series The 39 Clues. Riordan also created a sequel series to Percy Jackson, The Heroes of Olympus. Following the success of Percy Jackson, Riordan created The Kane Chronicles, which features a modern-day Egyptian pantheon and two new sibling protagonists, Sadie and Carter Kane. Twentieth Century Fox purchased the film rights and released a feature film in 2010. His Percy Jackson and the Olympians series features the titular twelve-year-old who discovers he is the modern-day son of the ancient Greek god Poseidon. Prior to Percy Jackson, Riordan had written the Tres Navarres series, a series of mystery novels for adult readers. Four sequels followed, with the last, The Last Olympian, in 2009. Riordan published the first novel in the series, The Lightning Thief, in 2005. Haley had been diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, inspiring Riordan to make the titular protagonist hyperactive and dyslexic. He conceived the idea for the Percy Jackson series as bedtime stories about ancient Greek heroes for his son Haley. Tres Navarre, an adult mystery series about a Texas private eye, won the Shamus, Anthony, and Edgar Awards. Riordan has created several successful book series. They moved from San Antonio to Boston in June 2013, in conjunction with older son Haley starting college in Boston. Rick married Becky Riordan in 1985 on the couple's shared birthday. He taught English and Social Studies for eight years at Presidio Hill School in San Francisco. He received his teaching certification in those subjects from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He transferred to the University of Texas at Austin and studied English and History. He graduated from Alamo Heights High School, and first attended the music program at North Texas State University, wanting to be a guitarist. Riordan was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. Riordan at the 2007 Texas Book Festival with advance publicity for The Battle of the Labyrinth His most recent book is the Daughter of the Deep, published in 2021. Riordan also helped Scholastic Press develop The 39 Clues series and its spinoffs, and penned its first book, The Maze of Bones (2008). Since then, Riordan has written The Heroes of Olympus, a sequel to the Percy Jackson series The Kane Chronicles (2010-2012), a trilogy of similar premise focusing on Egyptian mythology and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard (2015-2017), again a trilogy of similar premise focusing on Norse mythology. 
His big breakthrough was The Lightning Thief (2005), 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. Riordan's first full-length novel was Big Red Tequila, which became the first book in the Tres Navarre series. His books have spawned related media, such as graphic novels and short story collections.
20th Century Fox adapted the first two books of his Percy Jackson series as part of a series of films. Riordan's books have been translated into forty-two languages and sold more than thirty million copies in the US. 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. ( / ˈ r aɪər d ə n/ born June 5, 1964) is an American author. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy.Percy Jackson & the Olympians pentalogy.
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