Author Info:
Ridley Pearson is the award-winning author of multiple adventure series for (young-ish) readers, including The Kingdom Keepers, Steel Trapp, and with Dave Barry, Peter and the Starcatchers. Ridley is also a best-selling crime novelist of more than 25 titles. Pearson was the first U.S. citizen to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University. In 2013, Ridley was awarded Missouriâs Quill Award and inducted into that stateâs Writers Hall of Fame. As a âfull time dad and husband,â Ridley, along with his wife, Marcelle, live with their two teenage daughters in St. Louis, MO.