Who is Robert Jordan?
Robert Jordan, the beloved fantasy author, was born in 1948 in the Southern US, and died in 2007, a month before his 59th birthday. His early novels, begun in the late 1970s after a career in the military and a tour in Vietnam, were works based on the popular Conan The Barbarian franchise. Under a pen name, Robert Jordan additionally wrote the books, The Fallon Blood, The Fallon Pride, and The Fallon Legacy. To say that Robert Jordan was an intelligent man would be no exaggeration. He held an undergraduate degree in physics, and pursued a lifelong interest in history. The novels mentioned above did not garner much critical notice. His relationship with the science fiction and fantasy book publishing company Tor, had faith in Jordan’s ability giving him the go ahead to pursue one of the lengthiest fantasy series ever to have been written, The Wheel of Time series. Between 1990 and 2005, Robert Jordan published eleven novels in this series, which were critically acclaimed. The books, beg
For those of you who don’t know what’s going on, a few words of explanation are in order. Robert Jordan is a fantasy author whose most recent work is the bestselling Wheel of Time series, comprising so far the titles • The Eye of the World • The Great Hunt • The Dragon Reborn • The Shadow Rising • The Fires of Heaven • Lord of Chaos • A Crown of Swords • The Path of Daggers • Winter’s Heart • Crossroads of Twilight (anticipated Nov 2002) Jordan has two books related to the series but not part of the story line: • The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan and Teresa Patterson, was released in November, 1997. It is not a book in the series but rather an ancillary volume with background, history, and some short stories about the Wheel of Time setting. • Legends is a collection of short novels by various authors including Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Tad Williams, and others. Jordan’s contribution, an 80-page story entitled “New Spring”, tells about
