Robert Jordan
Sep. 17th, 2007 02:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tmcgA few minutes ago, I heard from another author on the phone that Robert Jordan had died.
I started copyediting his books with The Shadow Rising, in 1992. When you work on a long-running series for so many years, you develop a strangely personal relationship with the author even if you never meet face-to-face or speak over the phone, and I feel...bereaved, in a way that's hard to articulate. And frustrated, with a shake-your-fist-at-the-universe kind of anger. The Wheel of Time was the grand work of a lifetime, and he should have had the lifetime to complete it.
Making Light, with many more links in the comments
Dragonmount (server appears to be overwhelmed)
Associated Press release, via Google
The longer AP obituary via the New York Times
A mirror of his cousin Wilson's statement
The Robert Jordan Memorial Forum at TarValon.net
I started copyediting his books with The Shadow Rising, in 1992. When you work on a long-running series for so many years, you develop a strangely personal relationship with the author even if you never meet face-to-face or speak over the phone, and I feel...bereaved, in a way that's hard to articulate. And frustrated, with a shake-your-fist-at-the-universe kind of anger. The Wheel of Time was the grand work of a lifetime, and he should have had the lifetime to complete it.
Making Light, with many more links in the comments
Dragonmount (server appears to be overwhelmed)
Associated Press release, via Google
The longer AP obituary via the New York Times
A mirror of his cousin Wilson's statement
The Robert Jordan Memorial Forum at TarValon.net
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