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Special Announcement-Conversations 2011

 

 

   Rick Riordan Joining Conversations 2011 

 

Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan is the author of the number one New York Times bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series for children and the multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults.

 

He will be joining Lee Child as a guest author for the Rogers Public Library Foundation's 5th annual Conversations event. Mr. Riordan will conduct a writing workshop for kids on Friday October 28th and then join Lee Child at an authors reception for Conversations sponsors that evening.

 

 

On Saturday October 29th in the morning, Mr. Riordan will host a public event for families and kids. Tickets are scheduled to go on sale in next 4-6 weeks. To be informed of ticket availability and any updates on Conversations 2011, email us at conversations@rplfoundation.org.

 

 

 

For fifteen years, Rick Riordan taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. In 2002, Saint Mary's Hall honored him with the school's first Master Teacher Award.
His adult fiction has won the top three national awards in the mystery genre -- the Edgar, the Anthony and the Shamus.

 

His Percy Jackson series features a twelve year old dyslexic boy who discovers he is the modern-day son of a Greek god. The Lightning Thief was a New York Times Notable Book for 2005. Film rights have been purchased by Twentieth Century Fox and a feature film has been made. The Sea of Monsters was a Child Magazine Best Book for Children for 2006 and a Publishers Weekly and BookSense national bestseller. The third title, The Titan's Curse, made the series a number one New York Times bestseller.The fourth title, The Battle of the Labyrinth, had a first printing of one million copies.

Rick is also the author of The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, another number one New York Times bestseller. Film rights for The 39 Clues have been purchased by Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks.

 

 

SEE YOU THERE!!! Don't miss it this chance to see one of the country's most popular kid's author and get an autographed copy of his upcoming book due out this fall. and tell your friends.