Sept 26 2010 - Best-Selling Author Rick Riordan to Speak at Adelphi University

Rick Riordan will deliver the Rita Diamandopoulos Lecture in Literature on Saturday, September 25, 2010, in the Ruth S. Harley University Center's Thomas Dixon Lovely Ballroom, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY. This ticketed lecture will take place at 4:00 p.m. with a book-signing at 5:15 p.m.

Mr. Riordan is best known for his children's fiction series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians. His first book in the series, The Lightening Thief, was a Notable Book of the New York Times in 2005. The Sea of Monsters was named Child Magazine’s Best Book for Children in 2006 and was a national bestseller. His third title, The Titan’s Curse, put the series on the New York Times’ number one bestseller list, while the fourth title, The Battle of the Labyrinth, had a first printing of one million copies. The series ended in 2009 with The Last Olympian, which was also a national bestseller.

With a body of work including highly acclaimed adult fiction, Mr. Riordan won the 1998 Shamus Award and Anthony Award for Big Red Tequila, and the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original for The Widower’s Two-Step. The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, was another number one bestseller of the New York Times. His newest series, The Kane Chronicles, is about Egyptian mythology and opened in the spring of 2010 with The Red Pyramid.

Mr. Riordan was previously an English and history teacher for middle schools in the San Francisco Bay area and in Texas. In 2002, Saint Mary’s Hall in San Antonio, Texas honored him with the school’s first Master Teacher Award. He now writes full-time and lives in San Antonio with his wife and two sons.

For more information about this and other events on campus, please visit adelphi.edu, or call the Cultural Events Hotline at (516) 877-4555. General admission for this lecture is $15 per person. To purchase tickets, please visit the box office or call (516) 877-4000