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American author (born 1964)

For persons of a similar name, see Richard Riordan (disambiguation).

Richard Russell Riordan Jr. (RY-ər-dən; born June 5, 1964)^[1] is an American author, best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.

Riordan's books have been translated into forty-two languages and sold more than thirty million copies in the United States.^[2]20th Century Fox adapted the first two books of his Percy Jackson series as part of a series of films in which Riordan was not involved.

Riordan currently serves as a co-creator and executive producer on the television series adaption of the book series that was released on Disney+ in 2023. Riordan's books have also spawned other related media, such as graphic novels and short story collections.

Riordan's first full-length novel was Big Red Tequila, which became the first book in the Tres Navarre series. His big breakthrough was The Lightning Thief (2005), t