Editing Robert Jordan (section)

==Personal life==
Robert Jordan was a history buff and enjoyed hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool, and pipe-collecting. He described himself as a "[[High church]]" [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopalian]]<ref name="untitled">{{Cite web |last=Jordan |first=Robert |date=June 1, 2007 |title=(untitled) |url=https://dragonmount.com/blogs/entry/376-untitled/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705230621/https://dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=85 |archive-date=July 5, 2007 |website=Dragonmount, the Robert Jordan blog}}</ref> and received [[Eucharist|communion]] more than once a week.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Denzel |first=Jason |date=September 27, 2007 |title=My Journey to Robert Jordan's Funeral |url=https://dragonmount.com/blogs/entry/383-my-journey-to-robert-jordans-funeral/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011001519/http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=92 |archive-date=October 11, 2007 |website=Dragonmount, the Robert Jordan blog}}</ref> Politically, he described himself as a "[[Libertarianism|libertarian]] [[Monarchism|monarchist]]".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Livingston |first=Michael |title=Origins of the Wheel of Time |publisher=Tor |year=2022 |isbn=9781250860545 |page=28 |language=English}}</ref> He lived with his wife, [[Harriet McDougal]], who works as a book editor (currently with [[Tor Books]]; she was also Jordan's editor) in a house built in 1797.<ref name="torbio">{{Cite web |title=Robert Jordan and the Wheel of Time |url=http://www.tor.com/jordan/bio.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012024117/http://www.tor.com/jordan/bio.html |archive-date=October 12, 2007 |access-date=August 10, 2009}}</ref> He listed [[John D. MacDonald]], [[Jane Austen]], [[Louis L'Amour]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[Robert A. Heinlein]], [[Mark Twain]] and [[Michel de Montaigne|Montaigne]] as his favorite authors.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Theoryland of the Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan) : Wheel of Time Interview Search Results |url=https://www.theoryland.com/intvsresults.php?kwt=%27favorites%27 |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=www.theoryland.com}}</ref>

===Illness and death===
On March 23, 2006, Jordan revealed that he had been diagnosed with [[cardiac amyloidosis]] and that, with treatment, his [[median]] [[life expectancy]] was four years.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 23, 2006 |title=Letter from Robert Jordan |url=http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Features/03JordanLetter.html |website=[[Locus Online]]}}</ref> In a separate weblog post, he encouraged his fans not to worry about him and stated that he intended to have a long and creative life.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jordan |first=Robert |date=March 24, 2006 |title=Sorry about the premature announcement |url=https://dragonmount.com/blogs/entry/335-sorry-about-the-premature-announcement/ |website=Dragonmount}}</ref>

He began [[chemotherapy]] at [[Mayo Clinic]] during early April 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jordan, Robert |date=March 25, 2006 |title=Important note |url=http://www.tor.com/jordan/ |website=Tor Books}}</ref> He participated in a study of the drug [[Revlimid]], which had been approved recently for [[multiple myeloma]] but not yet tested for primary [[amyloidosis]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 25, 2005 |title=Important note from Robert Jordan |url=http://www.tor.com/jordan/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060405163217/http://www.tor.com/jordan/ |archive-date=April 5, 2006}}</ref>

Jordan died on September 16, 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jordan's death |url=http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=90 |access-date=November 28, 2011 |website=Dragonmount}}</ref> His funeral service was on September 19, 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 20, 2007 |title=James Oliver Rigney Jr. |url=http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/sep/20/james_oliver_rigney_jr16598/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120721233923/http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/sep/20/james_oliver_rigney_jr16598/ |archive-date=July 21, 2012 |newspaper=The Post and Courier}}</ref> He was cremated and his ashes buried in the churchyard of [[St. James Church (Goose Creek, South Carolina)|St. James Church]] in [[Goose Creek, South Carolina|Goose Creek]], outside [[Charleston, South Carolina]].<ref>{{Cite web |title="The Stone" – Entry in Robert Jordan's Blog at Dragonmount, dated October 6, 2008 |url=http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=134 |access-date=November 28, 2011 |publisher=Dragonmount.com}}</ref>

Jordan's papers can be found in the [[special collections]] of the [[College of Charleston]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Inventory of the James Oliver Rigney, Jr., Papers, 1905–2012 |url=http://archives.library.cofc.edu/findingaids/mss0197.html |access-date=January 7, 2019 |website=archives.library.cofc.edu |archive-date=January 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107072433/http://archives.library.cofc.edu/findingaids/mss0197.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>