Author

Robert Jordan

Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina. He taught himself to read when he was four with the incidental aid of a 12-year-older brother, and was tackling Mark Twain and Jules Verne by five. He is a graduate of the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army, among his decorations are the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with 'V' and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm. A history buff, he has also written dance and theatre criticism and enjoyed the outdoor sports of hunting, fishing and sailing and the indoor sports of poker, chess, pool and pipe collecting. Robert Jordan began writing in 1977 and went on to write the Wheel of Time®, one of the most important and bestselling series in the history of fantasy publishing with over 80 million copies sold around the world. Robert Jordan died on 16 September 2007, after a courageous battle with the rare blood disease amyloidosis.