Biography of James Rickard

James Rickard is an author, illustrator, playwright, and teacher. He grew up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Being noted as gifted in art, he took private art lessons and all available art classes in school. It was not until college where James majored in art education that he realized another passion: writing. Although two novels and a children's book are in the works, Mr. Rickard has written the one-act play,Piaget's Revenge, which was written and performed in July of 2006 and a two-act playSomething Mutant, which is published by Playscripts, Inc. The plays Mr. Rickard writes use dry humor and have subtle hints into dark comedy. Mr. Rickard was an elementary and middle school art teacher in Culpeper, Virginia before moving to Maryland where he currently is a high school art teacher in Gaithersburg.