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Rick Riordan

출생: June 05, 1964 – San Antonio, Texas, United States

Rick Riordan is an American author best known for mythologically inspired middle-grade fantasy, especially the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. A former teacher, he also wrote The Heroes of Olympus and Magnus Chase books. His work has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide and been translated into numerous languages.

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Rick Riordan was born on June 5, 1964, in San Antonio, Texas, and grew up in a family shaped by teaching, music, and art. At Alamo Heights High School, he worked on the school newspaper and placed in state feature writing, early signs of a literary life that would emerge fully only after other ambitions had been tested. He began college at North Texas State with plans centered on music, then transferred to the University of Texas at Austin, where he completed a double major in English and history, later earning teaching certification through the University of Texas at San Antonio. For fifteen years he taught middle school in California and Texas, and at Saint Mary’s Hall in San Antonio he received the school’s first Master Teacher Award. During those same years, he began publishing the adult Tres Navarre mysteries, a series that went on to win the Edgar, Anthony, and Shamus awards. ((https://rickriordan.com/about/))

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Writing is like a sport — you only get better if you practice
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The sea does not like to be restrained
-The Lightning Thief
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Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy
-The Sea of Monsters
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There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it
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Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong
-The Battle of the Labyrinth
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Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!!
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'I'm not good with children,' the god confessed. 'Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really.'
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Myths are simply stories about truths we've forgotten
-The Sword of Summer

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"Rick Riordan: Storyteller of the Gods"

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"Rick Riordan’s myth-inspired novels, the Percy Jackson series, for younger children, are an utter joy"

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"Children’s author Rick Riordan is getting kudos for his response to a request to remove a passage from his novel"

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"Almost two decades ago, Rick Riordan lobbed a well-aimed bolt of electricity straight into the heart of YA fiction"

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"Rick Riordan was named author of the year"

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"Rick Riordan was perhaps best known for his hugely popular Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series"

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