From his brother Wilson on Sunday:
It is with great sadness that I tell you that the Dragon is gone. RJ left us today at 2:45 PM. He fought a valiant fight against this most horrid disease. In the end, he left peacefully and in no pain. In the years he had fought this, he taught me much about living and about facing death. He never waivered in his faith, nor questioned our God’s timing. I could not possibly be more proud of anyone. I am eternally grateful for the time that I had with him on this earth and look forward to our reunion, though as I told him this afternoon, not yet. I love you bubba.
Sad news about an author who I've been reading for a very long time now. The DragonMount site seems to be down right now so I haven't seen much else other than what came through the RSS pipeline.

This is sad. I never read his most famous work, just a Conan story once, but being a long time sci fi fan, he was well known to me. My prayers go to his family.
Posted by: Mike Burleson | 17 September 2007 at 12:15