Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan | |
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| Born | James Oliver Rigney Jr. October 17, 1948 Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | September 16, 2007 (aged 58) Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | The Citadel (BS) |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Notable works | The Wheel of Time |
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James Oliver Rigney Jr. (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007), better known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is best known as the author of 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 considered by fans to be some of the best of the non-Robert E. Howard efforts. Jordan also published historical fiction using the pseudonym Reagan O'Neal, a western as Jackson O'Reilly, and dance criticism as Chang Lung. Jordan claimed to have ghostwritten an "international thriller" that is still believed to have been written by someone else.