Sunday, September 16, 2007

Robert Jordan, 1948-2007

According to a post this evening on his blog, bestselling fantasy author Robert Jordan died this afternoon at his home in Charleston, South Carolina after a long battle with a form of cancer. He had been diagnosed with primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy in March of 2006 and had received several rounds of chemotherapy treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for his condition.

Jordan was best known for the still-unfinished "Wheel of Time" series: eleven novels and a prequel had been published before his illness. The status of the projected final novel, A Memory of Light, is unknown at this time. Jordan had also written a number of well-received "Conan" novels and a number of historical novels under the name Reagan O'Neill.

"Robert Jordan" was a fairly open pseudonym for James Oliver Rigney, Jr., a Vietnam veteran, graduate of the Citadel, and nuclear engineer before he turned to writing in 1977. He is survived by his wife and editor, Harriet McDougal, and a legion of readers and enthusiasts.

Wikipedia article on Robert Jordan; Internet Speculative Fiction Database listing of his work.
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1 comment:

Ran said...

According to remarks by Jordan and, most recently, his cousin Wilson in the blog post just before this terrible announcement, it seems that lately Jordan had shifted away from trying to complete Memory of Light outright and instead prepared detailed plot outlines, drafted out key scenes, and told his wife Harriet and his cousin what he intended to happen in the last book.

It's hard not to get the idea that he had a sense that the fight wasn't going well, after more than a year of struggling with this disease.

It's quite a shame. Indirectly, Jordan's series has led to a lot of good things in my life, chief among them my fianceé.

Mon Sep 17, 04:10:00 AM 2007

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