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.
... a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45° 50' and 54° 24' N, off the coast of the Russian Maritime Province in East Siberia, Russia. Th ...