I'm sad...
One of my favorite authors, Robert Jordan, died this afternoon after a battle with Amyloidosis.
I read the first book in his Wheel of Time series when I was a sophomore in high school and thought the books were wonderful. Complicated... but I loved them. I had recently begun re-reading the series in the hope that the last book. A Memory of Light would be out in 2008 or 2009.
A prophetic article from last December here.