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    Richard Yancey is an American author who writes works of suspense, fantasy, and science fiction aimed at young adults. Bibliography. Novels. A Burning in Homeland (2003) The Highly Effective Detective series: The Highly Effective Detective (2006) The Highly Effective Detective Goes to the Dogs (2008)

  2. NY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR RICK YANCEY. Author of The 5th Wave, the Monstrumologist series and the Alfred Kropp adventures. WHAT'S NEW. Click here to watch the book trailer for The Infinite Sea! Rick sat down with The Wall Street Journal to discuss The 5th Wave series!

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    Rick is the author of fifteen novels and a memoir. His books have been published in over thirty languages and have earned numerous accolades and awards from around the world. His young adult novel, The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, was named a "Best Book of the Year" by Publishers Weekly and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. In 2010...

    Rick was born in Miami, Florida on a Sunday. Three days later, his new parents drove 225 miles from their hometown of Lakeland to meet him. Their first impression must have been all right, because they decided to give him a home and raise him the best way they knew how. They named him John Richard, but nobody ever called him John except teachers on...

    Rick wrote his first short-story for an assignment in his seventh-grade English class. He wrote the story in longhand and his mother, who was a legal secretary, typed it for him. He got an A. Rick was not the worst student at Crystal Lake Junior High, but he wasn't the best either. He didn't make a lot of A's, so this one meant a lot plus the fact ...

    Rick taught some English classes, did some acting and directing at a local community theater, even returned to the ranch for a while, the swampy breeding grounds of his elaborate daydreams. In 1991, he answered a newspaper ad for a government job that turned out to be with the Internal Revenue Service. He worked there for the next twelve years, fir...

    He left his job in 2004 to write fulltime. He wrote Confessions of a Tax Collector about his days at the IRS. He wrote the Highly Effective Detective series about a bumbling PI based in Knoxville. He wrote the Alfred Kropp series about a big kid who saves the world with King Arthur's sword, Excalibur. Then he wrote The Monstrumologist series, in wh...

    Now he's back in his native state with his true love and youngest son and a two-year old doodle named Max that he now wishes he had named Yankee or maybe Ramen. When he isn't daydreaming, he likes long walks with his wife and taking trips to Georgia's Golden Isles and doing projects around the house because writing doesn't seem like real work, or a...

    Learn about Rick Yancey, the author of fifteen novels and a memoir, including the sci-fi trilogy The 5th Wave. Discover his background, influences, and writing journey from Florida to Chicago and back.

  3. May 7, 2013 · A young adult sci-fi novel about a dystopian world where aliens have invaded Earth and killed most of the population. Cassie, a survivor, meets Evan, a mysterious stranger, and faces a choice between trust and despair.

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  4. Rick Yancey has 34 books on Goodreads with 1558319 ratings. Rick Yanceys most popular book is The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1).

  5. May 4, 2015 · Mystery & Thrillers, Young Adult, Nonfiction. edit data. aka Richard Yancey. Rick is a native Floridian and a graduate of Roosevelt University in Chicago. He earned a B.A. in English which he put to use as a field officer for the Internal Revenue Service.

  6. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors.

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