Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston. He was a graduate of the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics, and served two tours in Vietnam. His hobbies included hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool and pipe collecting. He died in September 2007.
Epic in every sense
*Sunday Times*
A fantasy phenomenon
*SFX*
With the Wheel of Time, Jordan has come to dominate the world that
Tolkien began to reveal
*New York Times*
[The] hugely ambitious Wheel of Time series helped redefine the
genre
*George R. R. Martin*
Anyone who's writing epic or secondary world fantasy knows Robert
Jordan isn't just a part of the landscape, he's a monolith within
the landscape
*Patrick Rothfuss*
Robert Jordan's work has been a formative influence and an
inspiration for a generation of writers
*Brent Weeks*
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