About R. A. Salvatore
Robert Anthony Salvatore is an American author best known for The Legend of Drizzt, a series of fantasy novels set in the Forgotten Realms and starring the character Drizzt Do'Urden. He has also written The DemonWars Saga, a series of high fantasy novels; several other Forgotten Realms novels; and Vector Prime, the first novel in the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series. He has sold more than 15 million copies of his books in the United States alone, and 22 of his titles have been New York Times best-sellers. He created the setting of Ynis Aielle for the novel, writing it in longhand by candlelight. He wrote his first published novel, The Crystal Shard, in just two months, and TSR published it in 1988.
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