Biography of Rick Rirdan

FIRST SYLLABLE RHYMES with Fire. " But, no matter how he was called, he was born on June 5 in the city of San Antonio, Texas. Rick's father and mother are a teacher. The mother of the future writer was fond of music and visual arts, his father loved to sculpt from clay. Rick studied at the Alamo Heights high school in San Antonio, was the editor of the school newspaper and once received the third prize of the state for this.

He says that at the same time he tried to produce an underground newspaper for a joke, in which, among other things, he mocked the constant losses of the school football team. The players did not forgive him for this and threw Rick with eggs. After graduation, he decided to study at the guitarist and entered the college in North Texas, but then transferred to the University of Texas in Austin, where he began to study English literature and history.

After graduating from the university, he worked for fifteen years as a teacher in state and private schools in California and in San Antonio. Currently, Rick Rirdan is a professional writer. He re -read it at least ten times. Since childhood, he was fond of Greek and Scandinavian mythology. In high school, the school was carried away by fantasy and science fiction, and in his student years he became interested in detectives.

According to Rick, he wrote his first story at the age of 13 and even sent it to one of the magazines where this work was rejected. The first publication of Rirdan took place already in his student years, when his two stories were printed in the University Literary Journal. White E [lwyn] b [rooks] White, - a separate site is dedicated to the cycle. The history of the cycle is not so unusual.

The son of the writer Haley in the second grade studied Greek myths and asked Rick to tell him the night of history about the Greek gods and heroes. Riordan at school told students many times about Greek mythology, so he easily agreed, but when he exhausted the myths he knew, his son was disappointed and asked Rick if he could come up with something new with the same heroes. After some thought, Rick recalled the school assignment that he gave sixth graders.

It was necessary to come up with your own demigod, son or daughter of any of the gods, and compose for him an adventure in the spirit of Greek myths. It was then that Riordan came up with Persia Jackson, a twelve-year-old modern American boy who turned out to be the son of the Greek God. Harvey liked the story of his father so much that he began to convince Rirdan to certainly write about this book.

Rick has gone to this for a year. For him, it was an amazing and exciting experience, because before he wrote books for children before. The author was so carried away that he began to continue to write books about Percy Jackson. The author’s website is about the cycle: “The gods of Olympus live and hello in the Om century! They still fall in love with mortals, and they have children - demigods, half -people, like the heroes of old Greek myths.

Maybe you are one of these children? Join the adventures of Persia Jackson and his modern half-half friends fighting mythological monsters and the lord of the Titans of Kronos. ” The film was released in February. The name of the fifth novel has not yet been announced, it is only known that its author will again be Gordon Corman Gordon Korman, -. In total, it is planned to release ten books and complete the project in the year.

Rick Rirdan is the coordinator and editor of this project. As part of the project, a online game is also launched and a collectible card game is released.