Biography
Rick Riordan is an American writer, author of adolescent books in fantasy genre. His Peru belongs to the famous series about the boy-hero of Percy Jackson, which in the US in terms of sales amounted to a worthy competition of Saga about Harry Potter. The biography of Riordan is the story of an ordinary school teacher who wrote a fairy tale for a son, who managed to embody the dream and not only to conquer the minds of adolescents, but also earn millions on their works.Childhood and youth
Richard Rossell Riordan was born on June 5, 1964 in San Antonio, Texas. His mother was fond of drawing and music, and his father was a sculptor, so the boy's interest in creativity was vaccinated since childhood.
However, the passion for books, Greek and Scandinavian mythology appeared at the future writer only in high school. Prior to that, he sincerely considered reading a boring occupation, while the teacher advised him "the Lord of the Rings." Roman Tolkina not only made him love literature, but also inspired to his own creativity.
Literature
At 13, Rick wrote the first story, after him several more. He tried to publish early work, but then he did not come out. After school, the young man first entered the Texas College, and then moved to Austin and was transferred to the local university, where he studied history and philology. During his studies, he led the amateur in the school camp. It was then that the future writer was born the idea of camps for half-breed, which is described in the cycle about Percy Jackson.
After receiving higher education, Riordan became a teacher at school. He settled in New Brownfels and got a family. After Rick, 8 years have lived in San Francisco, returned to his homeland and continued the teaching career. By this time, Riordan was ripe for writing the first full-fledged novel.
The book "The Blood-Red Tequila", written in a detective genre with elements of mysticism, was published in 1997. The main character in it was the private owner, a professor and master of martial arts Tape Navarre, whom Rick "settled" in his native city of San Antonio for him. Later, the book began the beginning of a whole cycle of works and received almost all the highest literary awards of the United States - the Award named after Edgar software, "Anthony", "Shamus".
In 2005, the writer switched to fantasy genre. The teenage series "Percy Jackson and a Lightning Thief", telling about the adventures of a 12-year-old boy who found his relationship with the Olympic gods, soon led the bestseller lists The New York Times.
The prototype of the main character became Haley - Son Riorudan. As a child, the child was set 2 diagnoses - attention deficit syndrome and dyslexia. The disease strongly complicated life and studies and study, and to cheer it up, the writer endowed the character of the book by the same problems.
Despite them, Percy, the son of Poseidon and the mortal woman, invulnerable, has super supervisors, knows how to manage ships, fight on swords and swim under water. The book was based on a fairy tale based on Greek myths, which Rick composed specifically for Halee. According to the father, the boy himself asked to make a book from them.
Riordan really delicately affects youthful problems in his books, and the world created by the author of fearless heroes, all-powerful gods, wise progress and terrible monsters fascinated first American adolescents, and then readers around the world - books were transferred to 37 languages. In total, 7 works came out in the series, the last one in 2014.
Later, Rick decided to continue the topic, retaining the chronology of the story, but a little shifting the focus from the main character on the secrets and the laws of the fictional world, and released another 5 books of additional materials ("Full Guide", "Cruel World of Heroes and Monsters" and others).
Riordan did not strive to popularity and did not try to earn seriously on the literature, so the noisy success was for him a surprise: every new cycle book flew to the top of the rankings, making up the competition "Harry Potter" and other deserved novels in sales of sales.
In 2008-2011, the author's bibliography was replenished with a new cycle "39 keys". This is a trilogy about the schoolgirl Amy, who along with Brother Dan travels around the world in search of a family secrets. The last book is written in co-authorship - Riordan helped Peter Leranzhis, Gordon Kormman and Jud Watson.
In the third series "Heroes of Olympus", the author appeals to Roman mythology, and in 2015 - to Scandinavian. The new cycle "Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard" about the adventures of the son of God Freya while translated into Russian not completely. In the network you can find amateur translation of the "ship of the Dead" (the official is made by the Publishing House "Eksmo").
The rights to the adaptation of the entire series about Percy Jackson bought a 20th Century Fox, and on "39 keys" - Studio Stephen Spielberg. The first film was released in 2010, the second - in 2013. Just like the books of Riorudan, the films did not avoid comparisons with Harry Potter and, according to critics, gave way to the famous work on the magician boy in the enraged and worker of the plot.
Personal life
Rick Riordan is married since 1985, his wife's name is Becky. The couple have two children - except Heili, they grow the son of Patrick. In the family, three domestic pets - 2 black cats and dog breed Labrador Retriever.
The writer has an account in Twitter with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, in which he announces new works, will post family photos, reports from meetings and conferences, quotes from books.
Rick Riordan now
The writer continues to work and, according to his statement, full of creative plans. Now he lives with his wife and children in Boston, Massachusetts. Riordan no longer teach and completely devotes to the books.
In 2016, he wrote a "secret oracle", in another transformation version also "hidden oracles"), which marked the beginning of the new cycle "Testing Apollo". A year later, the second book "Dark Prophecy" held 10 weeks in the list of bestsellers of children's literature New York Times. The release of final books is scheduled for 2018 and 2019.
Quotes
Sometimes the force has to wise wisdom. It does not contribute to the emergence of ingenious ideas, as a complete failure. It does not go away, without having received permission. The fact that people know how to envelop the words that take place by different intricacies, customizing him under their own version of reality.Bibliography
- 1997-2007 - Cycle "Trez Navarre"
- 2005-2014 - Perscy Jackson cycle
- 2008-2011 - Cycle "39 keys"
- 2010-2014 - Cycle "Heroes of Olympus"
- 2010-2015 - Cycle "Heirs of Gods"
- 2016-2017 - Cycle "Magnus Chase and Gods of Asgard"
- 2016-2018 - Cycle "Testing Apollo"