Harriet (Popham) Rigney (b. 1930s) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Harriet S. Rigney formerly Popham aka McDougal

Born 1930s.

Ancestors

Daughter of William Sherbrooke Popham and Louisa McCord Stoney

Sister of Kit (Popham) Raoul and Rosina Popham

[children unknown]

Problems/Questions Profile managers: David Randall

[send private message] and Notables Project WikiTree

[send private message]

Profile last modified 31 Mar 2024 | Created 3 Mar 2024

This page has been accessed 104 times.

Harriet (Popham) Rigney is notable.
Join: Notables Project
Discuss: notables

Biography

Harriet Popham McDougal Rigney is an editor who worked on several best-selling fantasy books, including The Wheel of Time series written by her husband, Robert Jordan.

Harriet was born on 4 Aug 1939, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Louisa McCord (Stoney) Popham and William Sherbrooke Popham. She attended the Ashley Hall private school, and then attended college at Wellesley for a year before she transferred to Radcliffe College (now part of Harvard University), from which she graduated.

She married Ed McDougal in 1964; they had a son in 1968 and divorced around 1970.

She worked as an editor for several publishing companies, most notably Tor/Forge. She briefly had her own publishing house, Popham Press, which published her soon-to-be second husband's first book, The Fallon Blood.

She married James Oliver Rigney Jr in March 1981. They had no children between them, though they raised her stepson together. She went into semi-retirement while he wrote his major series The Wheel of Time, only editing his books for Tor at that time. Professionally she retained her first married name, Harriet McDougal.

Her husband died in 2007. She continues to live at their home in Charleston. She has since co-edited and published The Wheel of Time Companion, an encyclopedic reference to the series.

Sources

See Also:

Wikipedia:Harriet_McDougal

Only the Trusted List can access the following:

Harriet's formal name
full middle name (S.)
exact birthdate
birth location
private siblings' names
spouse's name and marriage information

For access to Harriet Rigney's full information you must be on the Trusted List. Please login.

DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Harriet:

~6.25% ~12.50% Ellen Simons : 23andMe

Have you taken a test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.

Comments: 1

Leave a message for others who see this profile. If you prefer to keep it private, send a message to a profile manager:

There are no comments yet.

Featured German connections: Harriet is 21 degrees from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 23 degrees from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 25 degrees from Lucas Cranach, 19 degrees from Stefanie Graf, 16 degrees from Wilhelm Grimm, 23 degrees from Fanny Hensel, 25 degrees from Theodor Heuss, 13 degrees from Alexander Mack, 35 degrees from Carl Miele, 14 degrees from Nathan Rothschild, 23 degrees from Hermann Friedrich Albert von Ihering and 19 degrees from Ferdinand von Zeppelin on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.