Robert Jordan Summary

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This article is rather short and consists of an ultra-compressed biography, a works section, and an interview. The majority of the article is focused on the interview with little attention given to the biography. However, the space about the books he has written uses nice filler text instead of just listing them. The beginning of this article is useful for the most basic information about Robert Jordan. It gives his real name, where he was born, and his most distinguished accomplishments, but that’s it. There isn’t any other insight or deeper information about him until the interview later in the article. The interview has a long dialogue from Jordan himself that expresses some of his inner beliefs and his meaning behind why he chose fantasy

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