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|name = Robert Jordan |image = Robert Jordan.jpg |imagesize = 200px |caption = Jordan in 2005 |birth_name = James Oliver Rigney Jr. |birth_date = {{birth date |1948|10|17}} |birth_place = Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|2007|9|16|1948|10|17|mf=y}} |death_place = Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. |occupation = Novelist |genre = Fantasy |movement = |notableworks = The Wheel of Time |website = }}James Oliver Rigney Jr. (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007), better known by his pen name Robert Jordan,[1] was an American author of epic fantasy. He is best known for the Wheel of Time series, which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel. He is one of several writers to have written original Conan the Barbarian novels; his are highly acclaimed to this day.[2] Rigney also wrote historical fiction under his pseudonym Reagan O'Neal, a western as Jackson O'Reilly, and dance criticism as Chang Lung. Additionally, he ghostwrote an "international thriller" that is still believed to have been written by someone else.[3][4][5][6][7] Early lifeJordan was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He served two tours in Vietnam (from 1968 to 1970) with the United States Army as a helicopter gunner.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}} He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with "V" and oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm. After returning from Vietnam he attended The Citadel, where he received an undergraduate degree in physics; after graduating he was employed by the United States Navy as a nuclear engineer.[8] He began writing in 1977. Personal lifeHe was a history buff and enjoyed hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool, and pipe-collecting. He described himself as a "High Church" Episcopalian[9] and received communion more than once a week.[10] He lived with his wife, Harriet McDougal, who works as a book editor (currently with Tor Books; she was also Jordan's editor) in a house built in 1797.[11] Illness and deathOn March 23, 2006, Jordan disclosed in a statement[12] that he had been diagnosed with cardiac amyloidosis, and that with treatment, his median life expectancy was four years, though he said he intended to beat the statistics. He later posted on his Dragonmount blog to encourage his fans not to worry about him and announce that he intended to have a long and fully creative life. He began chemotherapy treatment at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in early April 2006.[13] Jordan was enrolled in a study using the drug Revlimid just approved for multiple myeloma but not yet tested on primary amyloidosis.[14] Jordan died at approximately 2:45 p.m. EDT on September 16, 2007,[15] and his funeral service was held on Wednesday, September 19, 2007.[16] Jordan was cremated and his ashes buried in the churchyard of St. James Church in Goose Creek, outside Charleston, South Carolina.[17][18] Jordan's papers can be found at the Special Collections at the College of Charleston.[19] Selected works{{main|List of works by Robert Jordan}}
References1. ^"Robert Jordan" was the name of the protagonist in the 1940 Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, though this is not how the name was chosen according to a 1997 interview he did on the DragonCon SciFi Channel Chat. 2. ^Byrne, Bob. "Walking Through the Valley: What I'm Reading – 8/26/10 " (review), August 31, September 1, 2010. 3. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=219#8 | title=Radio Dead Air Interview with Robert Jordan | publisher=Radio Dead Air | author=Ross | date=September 2005 | accessdate=2012-04-16}} 4. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=130#4 | title=Science Fiction Book Club Interview with Robert Jordan | publisher=SFBC | date=January 2001 | accessdate=2012-04-16}} 5. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=131#11 | title=Leiden Signing Report | publisher=Emma de Laat |author=Aan'allein | date=2001-04-04 | accessdate=2012-04-16}} 6. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=80#9 | title=Barnes & Noble Chat with Robert Jordan | publisher=Seven Spokes | date=1997-11-11 | accessdate=2012-04-16}} 7. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=733#2 | title=Wanderer Fantasy Convention - Interview with Robert Jordan | publisher=Theoryland | author=Tahir Velimeev | date=September 2000 | accessdate=2012-04-16}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=85|page=85 |author=Jordan, Robert|website=Dragonmount, the Robert Jordan blog |date=June 1, 2007}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=85|page=85 |author=Jordan, Robert|website=Dragonmount, the Robert Jordan blog |date=June 1, 2007}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=92 |website=Dragonmount, the Robert Jordan blog |date=September 27, 2007|page=92|author=Jordan, Robert}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tor.com/jordan/bio.html|title=Robert Jordan and the Wheel of Time|accessdate=August 10, 2009 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012024117/http://www.tor.com/jordan/bio.html |archivedate=October 12, 2007}} 12. ^{{cite web |title=Statement from Robert Jordan about his health in Locus Magazine |url=http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Features/03JordanLetter.html}} 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tor.com/jordan/ |title=Important note |author=Jordan, Robert |website= Tor Books|date= March 25, 2006}} 14. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.tor.com/jordan/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-04-21 |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812212716/http://www.tor.com/jordan/ |archivedate=August 12, 2011 |df= }} 15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=90 |title=Jordan's death. |publisher=Dragonmount |date= |accessdate=2011-11-28}} 16. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/sep/20/james_oliver_rigney_jr16598/ |title=The Post and Courier |publisher=Charleston.net |date=2007-09-20 |accessdate=2011-11-28 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20120721233923/http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/sep/20/james_oliver_rigney_jr16598/ |archivedate=2012-07-21 |df= }} 17. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21632571 |title=Robert Jordan (1948 - 2007) - Find A Grave Memorial |publisher=Findagrave.com |date= |accessdate=2011-11-28}} 18. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=134 |title="The Stone" - Entry in Robert Jordan's Blog at Dragonmount, dated October 6, 2008 |publisher=Dragonmount.com |date= |accessdate=2011-11-28}} 19. ^{{Cite web|url=http://archives.library.cofc.edu/findingaids/mss0197.html|title=Inventory of the James Oliver Rigney, Jr., Papers, 1905-2012|website=archives.library.cofc.edu|access-date=2019-01-07}} Further reading
External links{{wikiquote}}{{wikiquote|The Wheel of Time}}
18 : 1948 births|2007 deaths|20th-century American novelists|21st-century American novelists|American Episcopalians|American fantasy writers|Anglican writers|Conan the Barbarian novelists|Deaths from amyloidosis|Writers from Charleston, South Carolina|The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina alumni|The Wheel of Time|United States Army officers|Pseudonymous writers|Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)|United States Navy officers|American male novelists|Novelists from South Carolina |
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