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Penn Rhodeen became a lawyer after brief stints as a newspaper reporter and schoolteacher. His practice focuses on cases involving children and medical malpractice. He has also been heavily involved in political campaigns for a wide range of candidates, from local to presidential. Much of his writing has related to legal and political issues, including a op-ed pieces for The New York Times, Newsday, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and others.
Lani Diane Rich lives in upstate New York with her husband and two daughters. Most of her time is split between writing women’s fiction novels, singing songs from the “Buffy” musical episode with her kids and fighting with her husband. You can find out more about Lani at www.lanidianerich.com
Robert Burke Richardson hunts Snark in Edmonton, Alberta. He is the author of the elderly superhero saga Old School—“These aren’t your father’s superheroes … they’re your grandpa’s!”—from Arcana Studio, as well as stories, essays and pointless posts on his weblog, elf-help.blogspot.com.
Garry Ridge has been named by Inc. Magazine as one of the world’s top 10 Most Admired CEOs, and served as CEO of WD-40 Company for 25 years. The founder and CEO of The Learning Moment, Garry now delivers his inspiring message to audiences and coaching clients throughout the world. He currently sits on the boards of The Gorilla Glue Company and Eastridge Workplace Solutions. In the past, he has served on the boards of WD-40 Company, The Ken Blanchard Companies and The San Diego Foundation.
Edward J. Rielly chairs the English department at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. In addition to 10 volumes of his own poetry, he has published several nonfiction books. His recent publications include The 1960s (Greenwood), Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (ABC-Clio; recently released in paper by the University of Nebraska Press), Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond (a collection of essays from Haworth) and F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography (Greenwood). He is editing Baseball in the Classroom: Teaching America’s National Pastime, a collection of essays on baseball as pedagogy, for McFarland; and is writing Sitting Bull: A Biography (Greenwood) and Football: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (U of Nebraska Press). He also writes a newspaper column on baseball and has published many individual articles, book reviews, short stories and poems.
Jeffrey Rinek served 30 years with the FBI primarily investigating cases of missing and murdered children and is internationally renowned for obtaining a surprise confession from serial killer Cary Stayner to the brutal slayings of four women and girls known as the Yosemite Park Murders. In the Sacramento office of the FBI, he was responsible for assisting police and sheriff’s departments throughout Northern California in active and cold-case investigations involving missing children, child kidnappings, and the abuse, exploitation, and murder of children. He also served as a certified profiler for the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. In 2003 he was named Investigator of the Year by the California Sexual Assault Investigators Association and in 2006 received an Award for Excellence from the International Homicide Investigators Association. He was the Sacramento division case agent in 1993 overseeing the investigation that would come to be known as the Unabomber case. He has also worked for the FBI in the areas of white-collar crime, foreign counter-intelligence, and organized crime, served on the Bureau’s swat team, and as a co-pilot in its aviation force. He and his work have been featured on numerous TV documentary crime shows including A&E’s American Justice, TruTV’s Crime Stories, and Investigation Discovery’s Real Detective.
Rick Riordan is #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, and the author of the upcoming first installment in the 39 Clues series. For 15 years, Riordan taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. He lives in San Antonio with his wife and two sons.
Demigods and Monsters Expanded EditionPatricia Rippetoe, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and fantasy writer. She obtained her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Alabama, and her research on protection motivation theory and breast-cancer detection was named the psychology department’s outstanding dissertation for 1985. As an assistant professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center’s department of psychiatry, she taught psychology students at the graduate level, as well as psychology interns and psychiatry residents. For the last 18 years, Dr. Rippetoe has treated hundreds of adult patients in solo practice using cognitive therapy techniques. In 2005, she was admitted to the annual Viable Paradise Workshop for writers of science fiction and fantasy. She is available for consultations at St. Mungo’s (send owls to office, please) and hopes one day to find her way to Platform 9 3/4.
One of America’s most enduring broadcasters, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Geraldo Rivera is a Fox News correspondent-at-large and host of breaking news specials, the Geraldo Rivera Reports. He also provides weekly reporting and commentary for FNC’s Fox and Friends and Hannity. A native New Yorker outraged by the terror attacks of 9/11, he left CNBC’s Rivera Live to become a FNC senior war correspondent, reporting live from Afghanistan beginning with the initial siege on Osama bin Laden’s Tora Bora hideout, and broke the news ten years later that the terror mastermind had finally been killed by SEAL Team 6. He has reported extensively on the Arab–Israeli conflict and other armed conflicts around the globe, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq, one of eleven extended assignments there.
Rivera began his forty-eight-year television career at WABC-TV in New York where he presented a series exposing the deplorable conditions at the Willowbrook State School for residents then described as mentally retarded. These historic reports are credited with helping end the nation’s policy of warehousing the developmentally disabled.
Before becoming a member of the original cast of ABC’s Good Morning America, Rivera presented the first television broadcast of the Zapruder film of the assassination of President John Kennedy as host of ABC’s Goodnight America. He then began an eight-year association with ABC’s 20/20 as senior correspondent. One of his hour-long reports, “The Elvis Cover-Up,” was for more than two decades 20/20’s highest rated. Between 1987 and 1998, he produced and hosted Geraldo!, later called, The Geraldo Rivera Show, for daytime TV. The winner of the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy journalism award (his third) for his NBC News documentary on “Women in Prison,” and the Scripps Howard Foundation national journalism award for another NBC special report, “Back to Bedlam,” Rivera has received hundreds of honors for journalism and community service, including the prestigious George Foster Peabody, the Columbia Dupont, and three national and seven local Emmys.
An avid sailor who circumnavigated the globe, skippered four Marion to Bermuda yacht races, and took his vessel Voyager hundreds of miles up the Amazon River, Rivera is a graduate of the University of Arizona and Brooklyn Law School, and is the author of seven previous books. A philanthropist whose causes include the care and treatment of the disabled, he is married to the former Erica Michelle Levy and has five children, four of them adults. Geraldo and Erica live happily ever after with their twelve-year-old daughter Sol in Cleveland, Ohio. Go Cavs.
Mark Rivera is best known as Billy Joel’s saxophonist, as well as Musical Director for Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band. Rivera is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who over the past 50 years has shared the stage and supported some of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s greatest performers, including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Simon & Garfunkel, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Tony Bennett, Sheila E., Joe Walsh, Hall & Oates, and Peter Gabriel.
