Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time
'The Wheel of Times turns and Ages come and go
leaving memories that become legend.
Legend fades to myth and even myth is long forgotten
when the Age that gave it birth returns again.
In the Tird Age, an Age of Prophecy
the World and Time themselves hung in balance.
What is, what was, and what will be
may yet fall under the Shadow'
The author:
Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina, where he now lives with his wife, Harriet, in a house built in 1797. He thaught himself to read when he was four with the incidental aid of a twelve-year-older brother, and was tackling Mark Twain and Jules Verne by five. He is a graduate of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army; among his decorations are the Distinguished Flying Crosses of Gallantry. A history buff, he has also written dance and theater criticism. He enjoys the outdoor sports of hunting, fishing and sailing, and the indoor sports of poker, chess, pool and pipe collecting. He has been writing since 1977 and intends to continue until they nail shut his coffin.