Robert Jordan

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. .

( Biography wrote by Jonatan Salzer - Go to his site )

Books Written by him :

The Wheel of Time Series

The Eye of the World
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Rising
The Fires of Heaven
Lord of Chaos
A Crown of Swords
A Path of Daggers
Winter's Heart

The Conan Series

Conan the Invincible
Conan the Unconquered
Conan the Magnificent
Conan the Victorious
Conan the Triumphant
Conan the Defender
Conan the Destroyer

A little story by Robert Jordan - The strike at Shayol Ghul !!!