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  • Author James Rigney (pen name Robert Jordan) Dies

    09/16/2007 10:13:39 PM PDT · by burzum · 17 replies · 516+ views
    16 September 2007
    His official blog seems to be overloaded with traffic right now, but his cousin posted earlier that James Rigney, the author of the Wheel of Time series, died earlier today after a year long fight against amyloidosis. Author Patrick Nielsen Hayden has a discussion on his blog. James Rigney was a good guy and his death is sad news for all of his fans. Not only was he a great author, he was a great patriot as well. He served in the army in Vietnam earning (from Wikipedia) the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star...
  • My Author, My Life (Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series)

    02/26/2007 10:52:04 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 16 replies · 822+ views
    Forbes ^ | December 1, 2006 | Hannah Clark
    There are readers, and then there are fans. Readers offer condolences when a favorite author falls ill. Fans offer bone marrow. Robert Jordan, author of the best-selling Wheel of Time series, has fans. And if you want to understand them, take a look at his blog. Since last spring, when he announced he had a rare blood disease called amyloidosis, Jordan, 58, has been chronicling his life-and-death struggle online. Whenever he's well enough to write, he thanks the fans who sent care packages, and those who donated to the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn., where he is being treated. Then...
  • Letter from Robert Jordan (diagnosed with amyloidosis)

    03/24/2006 2:16:43 PM PST · by kingu · 11 replies · 418+ views
    Locus Online ^ | March 23rd, 2006 | Robert Jordan/Jim Rigney
    Dear Locus, I have been diagnosed with amyloidosis. That is a rare blood disease which affects only 8 people out of a million each year, and those 8 per million are divided among 22 distinct forms of amyloidosis. They are distinct enough that while some have no treatment at all, for the others, the treatment that works on one will have no effect whatsoever on any of the rest. An amyloid is a misshapen or misfolded protein that can be produced by various parts of the body and which may deposit in other parts of the body (nerves or organs)...