Rob Jordan
Author of Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788-1840
Rob Jordan is Robert Jordan (2). For other authors named Robert Jordan, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Robert Jordan was born James Oliver Rigney Jr. on October 17, 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina. He received a B.S. in physics from The Citadel in 1974. He served two tours of duty in Vietnam with the U.S. Army and won The Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star and two Vietnamese Crosses of show more Gallantry. From 1974 to 1978, he worked for the U.S. Civil Service as a nuclear engineer. During the 1980's, he began writing several novels for the Conan the Barbarian series that was created in the 1930's by Robert E. Howard. He also wrote under many pseudonyms, which include the historical novels The Fallon Blood (1980), The Fallon Pride (1981) and The Fallon Legacy (1982) as Reagan O'Neal; and the western Cheyenne Riders (1982) as Jackson O'Reilly. He wrote articles for periodicals for the Library Journal, Fantasy Review and Science Fiction Review as Chang Lung. He was the author of the Wheel of Time series and The Towers of Midnight. He died on September 16, 2007 following a battle with cardiac amyloidosis. Jordan was cremated and his ashes buried in the churchyard of St. James Church in Goose Creek, outside Charleston. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical name
- Jordan, Rob
- Legal name
- Jordan, Robert John
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- professor (theatre studies)
- Organizations
- University of New South Wales
New South Wales Board of Studies
National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney, Australia - Short biography
- [from Australasian Drama Studies Association website]
Rob Jordan was an Emeritus Professor of the University of New South Wales, where he was the Professor of Theatre Studies for about twenty years. Shortly before his retirement he became interested in convict theatre in New South Wales and in 2002 published Convict Theatres of Early Australia, 1788-1840. In his retirement he kept his hand in writing articles on early Australian theatre.
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