The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time

'The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again'.These words began one of the most extraordinary works of epic fantasy ever published - a series that has topped the international bestseller lists and is now appearing in fourteen languages. It has transported readers to a world so strikingly real, so rich in detail and complexity, it seems to rise from memory rather than the printed page. About The Author: About the Author Robert Jordan was born James Oliver Rigney Jr. on October 17, 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina. He received a B.S. in physics from The Citadel in 1974. He served two tours of duty in Vietnam with the U.S. Army and won The Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star and two Vietnamese Crosses of Gallantry. From 1974 to 1978, he worked for the U.S. Civil Service as a nuclear engineer. In 1981, he married Harriet McDougal and they have one son. Jordan began writing, during the 1980's, several novels for the "Conan the Barbarian" series that was created in the 1930's by Robert E. Howard. He has also written under many pseudonyms, which include the historical novels "The Fallon Blood" (1980), "The Fallon Pride" (1981) and "The Fallon Legacy" (1982) as Reagan O'Neal; and the western "Cheyenne Riders" (1982) as Jackson O'Reilly. He has also written articles for periodicals for the Library Journal, Fantasy Review and Science Fiction Review as Chang Lung. Jordan is the author of the Wheel of Time series whose first novel is "The Eye of the World" (1990) and he wrote The Towers of Midnight which hit the New York Times Bestsellers list in 2010. He died on September 16, 2007 following a battle with cardiac amyloidosis.