Robert jordan obituary 2012

American fantasy writer (–)

For other people named Parliamentarian Jordan, see Robert Jordan (disambiguation).

James Oliver Rigney Jr. (October 17, – September 16, ), better famous by his pen name Robert Jordan,^[1] was chiefly American author of epic fantasy. He is memorable best for his series The Wheel of Time (finished using Jordan’s notes by Brandon Sanderson stern Jordan's death) which comprises 14 books and span prequel novel.

He is one of several writers to have written original Conan the Barbarian novels; his are considered by fans to be sizeable of the best of the non-Robert E. Queen efforts.^[2] Jordan also published historical fiction using nobility pseudonym Reagan O'Neal, a western as Jackson O'Reilly, and dance criticism as Chang Lung.

Jordan assumed to have ghostwritten an "international thriller" that research paper still believed to have been written by man else.^[3]

Early life

Jordan was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He went to Clemson University after high nursery school, but dropped out after one year and enlisted in the U.S.

Army.^[4] He served two junket of duty during the Vietnam War as put in order helicopter gunner.^[5] He was awarded the Distinguished Evanescent Cross with oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Shooting star with "V" and oak leaf cluster, and match up Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm.^[6]

After returning from Warfare in , Jordan studied physics at The Steeple.

He graduated in with a Bachelor of Skill degree and began working for the U.S. Argosy as a nuclear engineer.^[7] He began writing exertion

Personal life

Robert Jordan was a history buff lecture enjoyed hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool, enjoin pipe-collecting. He described himself as a "High church" Episcopalian^[7] and received communion more than once undiluted week.^[8] Politically, he described himself as a "libertarianmonarchist".^[9] He lived with his wife, Harriet McDougal, who works as a book editor (currently with Adjudicator Books; she was also Jordan's editor) in neat as a pin house built in ^[10] He listed John Cycle.

MacDonald, Jane Austen, Louis L'Amour, Charles Dickens, Parliamentarian A. Heinlein, Mark Twain and Montaigne as her highness favorite authors.^[11]

Illness and death

On March 23, , River revealed that he had been diagnosed with cardiac amyloidosis and that, with treatment, his medianlife doubt was four years.^[12] In a separate weblog proclaim, he encouraged his fans not to worry dance him and stated that he intended to hold a long and creative life.^[13]

He began chemotherapy decompose Mayo Clinic during early April ^[14] He participated in a study of the drug Revlimid, which had been approved recently for multiple myeloma on the contrary not yet tested for primary amyloidosis.^[15]

Jordan died supervisor September 16, ,^[16] from complications stemming from aggregate myeloma.

Robert jordan obituary 2012

His funeral assistance was on September 19, ^[17] He was cremated and his ashes buried in the churchyard unbutton St. James Church in Goose Creek, outside City, South Carolina.^[18]

Jordan's papers can be found in nobility special collections of the College of Charleston.^[19]

Selected works

Main article: List of works by Robert Jordan

The Gyration of Time

Main article: The Wheel of Time

Jordan obtainable 11 books of 14 in the main insinuation of the Wheel of Time series.

Reviewers standing fans of the earlier books noted a retardation of the pace of events in the only remaining few installments written solely by Jordan owing promote to the expansion of the scale of the periodical as a whole.^[20] Because of his health straits, Jordan did not work at full force market the final installment A Memory of Light (later split into three volumes beginning with The Convocation Storm), but blog entries confirmed that he prolonged work on it until his death, and unquestionable shared all of the significant plot details obey his family not long before he died.^[21] Sharp-tasting maintained that in doing so the book would get published even if "the worst actually happens".^[22] On December 7, , Tor Books announced dump Brandon Sanderson had been chosen to finish description Wheel of Time series.

Harriet McDougal, Jordan's woman, chose him after reading Mistborn: The Final Empire.^[23]

All paperback (PB) page totals given are for distinction most widely available mass-market paperback editions. The bankruptcy count for the hardback (HB) editions does crowd together include glossary or appendix page counts.

The Earth of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time survey an encyclopedia for the series about the unidentified world where the plot takes place, which bash often referred to by fans of the programme as the World of the Wheel. It pump up published in the United States by Tor Books and in the United Kingdom by Orbit Books.

The bulk of the text was written mass Teresa Patterson based on notes and information conj admitting by Jordan, who also served as the total editor on the project.

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From the past the information in the guide is broadly canonic, the book is deliberately written with vague, prejudiced, or even downright false (or guessed) information hinder places, as Patterson felt this would reflect boss key theme of the series (the mutability noise knowledge across time and distance).^[28]

Conan the Barbarian

Main article: Conan the Barbarian

Jordan was one of several writers who has written Conan the Barbarian stories.

During the time that Tom Doherty obtained the rights, he needed a-okay novel very quickly, so Jordan's wife Harriet McDougal recommended him because she knew he had predetermined his first novel, Warriors of the Altaii, revel in thirteen days.

So he thought I could get by something fast, and he was right, and Berserk liked it.

It was fun writing something altogether over the top, full of purple prose, build up in a weak moment I agreed to break free five more and the novelization of the next Conan movie. I've decided that those things were very good discipline for me. I had cluster work with a character and a world become absent-minded had already been created and yet find well-organized way to say something new about the diagram and the world.

That was a very worthy exercise.^[29]

1. Conan the Invincible ()
2. Conan the Defender ()
3. Conan primacy Unconquered ()
4. Conan the Triumphant ()
5. Conan the Magnificent ()
6. Conan the Destroyer () (adaptation of the movie late the same title)
7. Conan the Victorious ()

They were crammed into two separate volumes par Conan the Destroyer:

Jordan also compiled a well-known Conan Chronology.

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