Award-winning author, J.F. Riordan, is best known as a novelist and essayist. She used to be a little girl with a dog, but now she is a grown up with dogs. All her dogs wear capes.Award-winning author, J.F. Riordan, is best known as a novelist and essayist. She used to be a little girl with a dog, but now she is a grown up with dogs. All her dogs wear capes.