Robert Jordan vs. Ernest Hemingway
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Robert Jordan
1948 – 2007
James Oliver Rigney Jr., known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is best known as the author of The Wheel of Time series, which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel. The series is among the highest selling book series of all time, with 90 million copies sold.
"The best way to apologize to a man is to trip him in a secluded part of the garden."
Ernest Hemingway
1899 – 1961
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."