Robert Jordan

:Alternative meanings: Robert Jordan (lawyer) for the former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; Robert Jordan (character) for the character in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls.

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Robert Jordan is the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (born October 17, 1948). It has been speculated that the pen name is from the main character of Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, but Robert Jordan has since clarified on his blog http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/ that his pen names were chosen from three lists of names using his real initials, and that "Robert Jordan" contains all three of his initials in a first name and a surname. He is best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. Jordan was born in Charleston, South Carolina and holds an undergraduate degree in physics from The Citadel, the military college of South Carolina. He is a history buff and served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army.

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Pen name - October 17 - 1948 - Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls - The Wheel of Time - Fantasy - Charleston, South Carolina - Physics - The Citadel - South Carolina - Vietnam - U.S. Army

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