Robert Jordan is known best for his series The Wheel of Time which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel.
23 Facts About Robert Jordan
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Robert Jordan is one of several writers to have written original Conan the Barbarian novels; his are considered by fans to be some of the best of the non-Robert E Howard efforts.
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Robert Jordan claimed to have ghostwritten an "international thriller" that is still believed to have been written by someone else.
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Robert Jordan went to Clemson University after high school, but dropped out after one year and enlisted in the US Army.
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Robert Jordan served two tours of duty during the Vietnam War as a helicopter gunner.
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Robert Jordan was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with "V" and oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm.
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Robert Jordan graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science degree and began working for the US Navy as a nuclear engineer.
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Robert Jordan was a history buff and enjoyed hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool, and pipe-collecting.
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Robert Jordan described himself as a "High church" Episcopalian and received communion more than once a week.
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Robert Jordan lived with his wife, Harriet McDougal, who works as a book editor in a house built in 1797.
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Robert Jordan listed John D MacDonald, Jane Austen, Louis L'Amour, Charles Dickens, Robert A Heinlein, Mark Twain and Montaigne as his favorite authors.
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On March 23,2006, Robert Jordan disclosed that he had been diagnosed with cardiac amyloidosis and that, with treatment, his median life expectancy was four years.
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Robert Jordan began chemotherapy at Mayo Clinic during early April 2006.
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Robert Jordan participated in a study of the drug Revlimid, which had been approved recently for multiple myeloma but not yet tested for primary amyloidosis.
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Robert Jordan died on September 16,2007, from complications stemming from Multiple Myeloma.
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Robert Jordan was cremated and his ashes buried in the churchyard of St James Church in Goose Creek, outside Charleston, South Carolina.
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Robert Jordan published 11 books of 14 in the main sequence of the Wheel of Time series.
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Reviewers and fans of the earlier books noted a slowing of the pace of events in the last few installments written solely by Robert Jordan owing to the expansion of the scale of the series as a whole.
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Robert Jordan maintained that in doing so the book would get published even if "the worst actually happens".
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Harriet McDougal, Robert Jordan's widow, chose him after reading Mistborn: The Final Empire.
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The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time is an encyclopedia for the series about the unnamed world where the plot takes place, which is often referred to by fans of the series as the World of the Wheel.
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The bulk of the text was written by Teresa Patterson based on notes and information provided by Robert Jordan, who served as the overall editor on the project.
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Robert Jordan was one of several writers who has written Conan the Barbarian stories.