Riordan, Rick
Rick Riordan (D) was born 1964 in San Antonio. He started writing with 13 and worked for a newspaper - and got in trouble because of another newspaper he published which made mock of the school and the football team. Later on he studied first music in the North Texas State college, than changed his program to English and History in the University of Texas in Austin. He worked as an English and History teacher in different schools before getting a full-time author. He now lives with his wife, his two children and four pets in San Antonio.
Books: The Percy Jackson Series, the Kane Chronicles, the Heroes of the Olympus series, Magnus Chase series, The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, The Trials of Apollo, Big Red Tequila, The Widower's Two-Step, The Last King of Texas, The Devil Went Down to Austin, Cold Springs, Southtown, Mission Road and Rebel Island