Biographie de Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina, and died in 2007. He taught himself to read when he was four with the incidental aid of a twelve-years-older brother, and was tackling Mark Twain and Jules Verne by five. He is a graduate of the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with adegree in physics, and served two tours in Vietnam with the US Army. Among his decorations are the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with 'V' and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with Palm.
He has written historical novels, and dance and theatre criticism, but it is the many volumes of his epic Wheel of Time® series that have made him one of the bestselling and best-loved fantasy writers of modern times.