Ridley Pearson

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-10-31

Ridley Pearson was born on March 13, 1953, in Glen Cove, New York, and grew up in Riverside, Connecticut. He studied at the University of Kansas and Brown University. He writes suspense, thriller and adventure novels, including the Lou Boldt series and the standalone thriller Cut and Run. In 1991 he became the first American recipient of the Raymond Chandler-Fulbright Fellowship at Oxford University, and he later received the Quill Award from the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame. For Disney he created The Kingdom Keepers, in which teenagers fight Disney villains inside theme parks. With Dave Barry he co-wrote Peter and the Starcatchers, a prequel to Peter Pan that became a Broadway play. He also sang and played bass in the Rock Bottom Remainders, an author band that ended in 2012. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife and two daughters.