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Richard Riordan is an American author who is best known for writing the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Riordan was born on June 5, , in San Antonio, Texas. He started writing when he was a young adult, focusing on short stories and submitting a few of them for publication.

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He also edited his high school newspaper. Riordan never took writing very seriously until after graduating from the University of Texas. After graduating, he started teaching high school in San Francisco. For 15 years, Riordan taught English and history in different public and private high schools. Riordan was once asked by his young son, Haley, to narrate to him bedtime stories about gods and the heroes in the Greek mythology.

At first he had stories to tell his son, but with time he ran out of stories. His son was very disappointed and even asked him if he could come up with something new, but with similar characters to his previous stories. In reference to his son, he decided to give character of Percy some attributes that hit very close to home.