Robert Jordan

See also: Jordan, O' Neal

Robert Jordan is the pen name of an American author of Fantasy. Of its true name James Oliver Rigney, Jr. , it was born in 1948 with Charleston in South Carolina (the United States) and deceased on September 16th, 2007.

Biography

According to the author, the pen name Robert Jordan does not come from the main character of the book For whom rings the knell Ernest Hemingway, but well of a list which it composed from his initial.

Under other pen names, he also wrote historical novels (signed Reagan O' Neal) and westerns (signed Jackson O' Reilly).
The March 23rd 2006, it announced to be reached of a orphan Maladie rare and serious, the amylose, the treatment which it followed could leave him 4 years an average life expectancy. But on September 16th, 2007, Robert Jordan was finally carried by the disease.

Its most known work is the Wheel of Time .

Works

Cheyenne Riders (1982) under the pseudonym of Jackson O' Reilly

Series of Fallon (not translated into French)

  • The Fallon Legacy (1981)
  • The Fallon Pride (1982)
  • The Fallon Blood (1995)

Series of the Conan

  • Conan the defender ( Conan the Defender ) (1982)

  • Conan the invincible one ( Invincible Conan the ) (1982)
  • Conan triumphing it ( Conan the Triumphant ) (1983)
  • Conan the unconquered one ( Conan the Unconquered ) (1983)
  • Conan the destructor ( Conan the Destroyer ) (1984)
  • Conan the splendid one ( Conan the Magnificent ) (1984)
  • Conan the victorious one ( Conan the Victorious ) (1984)
  • Conan the king of the robbers ( Conan: King off Thieves ) (1984)

Series the Wheel of Time

  1. the Invasion of Darkness ( The Eye off the World ), 1990

    1. the Wheel of Time
    2. the Eye of the World
  2. Great Hunting ( The Great Hunt ), 1990
    1. the Horn of Valère
    2. the Banner of the Dragon
  3. the Master of the Evil ( The Dragon Reborn ), 1991
    1. the Dragon Réincarné
    2. Play of Darkness
  4. the Twilight of the World ( The Shadow Rising ), 1992
    1. Rise of the Storms
    2. Storms
  5. Fire of heavens ( The Fires off Heaven ), 1993
    1. Sparks
    2. Fire of heavens
  6. the Lord of Chaos ( Lord off Chaos ), 1994
    1. the Lord of Chaos
    2. the Fatal Illusion
  7. a Crown of Swords ( has Crown Swords off), 1996
    1. a Crown of Swords
    2. Lances of Fire

Not (still) translated

  • volume 8 VO The Path off Daggers (not yet translated), 1998

  • volume 9 VO Winter' S Heart (not yet translated), 2000
  • volume 10 VO Crosswords off Twilight (not yet translated), 2003
  • volume 11 VO The Knife off Dreams (not yet translated), 2005
  • volume 12 VO has Memory off Light (provisional title, to appear), considering the rate/rhythm of publication it is awaited for the beginning of 2008, by hoping that it appears, Robert Jordan being deceased on September 16th, 2007, after having left notes and part of novel written on the course of the history to its wife.
  • The World off Robert Jordan' S the Wheel off Time (1998, deliver presenting the world in which the Wheel of Time is held, in collaboration with Teresa Patterson)
  • New Spring: The Novell (2004) Prequelle : the history is in the world of “the Wheel of Time” 15 years before the first novel.

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