Robert Jordan

Novelist, Author

1948 – 2007

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Who was Robert Jordan?

James Oliver Rigney, Jr, better known under the pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is best known for The Wheel of Time, which consists of 14 books and a prequel novel. Rigney also wrote historical fiction under his pseudonym Reagen O'Neal, a western as Jackson O'Reilly and dance criticism as Chang Lung. He also ghostwrote an "international thriller" that is still believed to have been written by someone else.

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Born
Oct 17, 1948
Charleston
Also known as
  • Reagan O'Neal
  • James Oliver Rigney Jr.
  • Jackson O'Reilly
  • Chang Lung
  • James Oliver Rigney, Jr.
  • Jordan, Robert
Spouses
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • The Citadel
Lived in
  • Charleston
Died
Sep 16, 2007
Charleston
Resting place
Goose Creek St. James' Church

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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