Robert Jordan
James Oliver Rigney Jr.
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Emerging from a South Carolina childhood in which he taught himself to read before school, he later attended Clemson University briefly, served two tours as a helicopter gunner in Vietnam, and earned a physics degree from The Citadel before working as a nuclear engineer for the U.S. Navy. A serious injury and hospital stay in 1977 prompted him to abandon engineering and begin a writing career, fir…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources