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Robert Jordan

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Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney Jr.) was an American epic fantasy author, best known for The Wheel of Time series and earlier Conan novels.

Biography

James Oliver Rigney Jr., known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. His best-known work is The Wheel of Time series, which comprises fourteen books and a prequel novel and is noted among the highest-selling book series, with 90 million copies sold.

In his earlier career he was one of several writers to produce original Conan the Barbarian novels. Jordan was the best-known of several pen names he used, adopting different monikers for different genres and publishing widely under his most familiar name.

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