“What I’m talking about is biography, how he did what he did, his relationship to Tolkien, and just seeing how an author developed as a writer and developed a project,” he says. Origins of The Wheel of Time has already been a hit with Jordan fans, but Livingston hopes the book will reach a wider audience as well. He wanted to tell a story, and he wanted to do it right, and he had the success that he could do it the way he thought was best.” “They weren’t, then or now, trying to milk more dollars out of the fans. “I get that cynicism, but it’s not really fixed in reality,” he says. But Livingston found nothing in the author’s voluminous notes to suggest that that was the case. I know that place.’”Īs The Wheel of Time expanded to more than 10 volumes, Jordan was often accused of deliberately padding out the series. “When I’m reading the books, and I read the name of an inn, I’m like, ‘That’s that pub next to his house. “Living here, and working at the place where he went to school and that meant so much to him as an alma mater, certainly was a huge advantage,” Livingston says. Livingston lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and teaches at The Citadel, which gives him a leg up when it comes to researching Jordan, who attended The Citadel and lived in Charleston for most of his life.
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