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RickRiordan.comis a websiteClick here to go to RickRiordan.com For about fifteen years Rick Riordan has been teaching English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas that is also where he earned his first Master Teacher award. Rick Riordan was born in June 5, 1964 San Antonio, Tx. The High school he attended was a school called Alamo Heights High School where he worked as an editor for the school's news paper and succeeded 3rd place in state for the UIL feature writing. Rick later than got into some trouble for writing an underground article that was about bad thing of his high school which caused the football players to egg his car. Soon after completing high school he went to college thinking he wanted to be a guitar player so he attended North Texas State because they had the best music program. He then moved to University of Texas at Austin where he graduated a double major in English and history. Rick lived with both his parents who were both teachers too. His mother was a musician and an artist and his father was a ceramicist which meant he had an artistic life. Rick started to write mystery novels called Tres Navarre series which won him top three national awards in the mystery genre.