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About the Author:




Robert Jordan
Note! Robert Jordan is a pseudonym. His real name is James Oliver Rigney Jr!!!
A lifelong resident of Charleston, South Carolina, Jordan was born in 1948. With a brother 12 years his
senior, Robert began his education at an early age, and his future interest in fantastic literature was
inevitable. "When my parents couldn't get a baby-sitter, they'd get my brother," he recalls. "He would
read to me, not kids' books, but things he was interested in, like Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Mark
Twain, so I was exposed to a lot of great fiction."

Jordan served two tours of duty in Vietnam (1968-70), earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and the
Bronze star. The Vietnamese twice awarded him with their Cross of Gallantry. After Vietnam, he entered
the Citadel, the military college of South Carolina, where he received a degree in physics. In retrospect,
Robert Jordan feels that physics is not such an unusual background for a fantasy writer. "You can't study
quantum mechanics without a feel for fantasy," he recently reflected, "Schrodinger's Cat alone will kill any
logical person dead." After attaining his degree, he was employed by the Navy as a nuclear engineer. He
was hospitalized for an injury which gave him a great deal of time to catch up on his reading. Jordan
quickly ran out of satisfactory material, and in exasperation, thought he could probably write as well as
the authors he had been reading. The Wheel of Time is the happy result.

Robert Jordan has now been writing for 13 years, and he has been married for ten. He and his wife live
in the Old Historic District of Charleston, in a house dating from 1797. A history buff, he is particularly
interested in Charleston's past, and in military history. An outdoors man, Jordan enjoys hunting fishing
and sailing, and the indoor sports of poker, chess and pool, and collecting pipes. .




About this book . . .


The Eye of the World
Book One of the Wheel of Time
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The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades
to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth return again. In the Third Age, an
Age of Prophecy, when the World and Time themselves hang in the balance, a wind rises in the
mountains of mist. . .