Sep 18
Robert Jordan Dies
Posted by Slobokan @ 20:35 · 99 words · print
Someone informed me I missed this one yesterday.
Author Robert Jordan, whose "Wheel of Time" series of fantasy novels sold millions of copies, died Sunday of a rare blood disease. He was 58.
Jordan, whose real name was James Oliver Rigney Jr., was born and lived in this southern city most of his life. He died at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston of complications from primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy, his personal assistant, Maria Simons, said Monday. The blood disease caused the walls of Rigney's heart to thicken.
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He is survived by his wife, Harriet McDougal Rigney.
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