James Oliver Rigney, Jr., a.k.a. Robert Jordan (born in 1948) is best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Timefantasy series. Jordan 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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a poetical paraphrase in French in 1651.
The "Imitation of Christ" derives its title from
the heading of the first book, De imitatione Christi
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