Rick Riordan

ABOUT RICK RIORDAN

American fantasy author of several award-winning and bestselling book series. His best-known works include Percy Jackson & the Olympians, The Kane Chronicles, the Tres Navarre books, and The Maze of Bones.

A graduate of the University of Texas , he taught social studies and English at a San Francisco high school for nearly a decade. He published the first novel in his Tres Navarre series, Big Red Tequila, in 1997.

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.

He grew up in San Antonio, Texas. He and his wife, Becky , later settled in Boston, Massachusetts with their two sons, Haley and Patrick.

He created the Percy Jackson character, who is portrayed by Logan Lerman in the Percy Jackson films.