Charleston novelist James Oliver Rigney Jr., 58, known to millions of readers by the pen name Robert Jordan, the best-selling author of “The Wheel of Time” fantasy series, died Sunday after a fight with the rare blood disease amyloidosis, a progressive disorder first diagnosed in December 2005 at the Medical University of South Carolina.
http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/sep/17/robert_jordan_dies_at_age16247/
That is very sad, I’ll remember him and his family in my prayers.
RIP. A good man. If anyone wonders, yes, I do think he deserves mention here.