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R. A. Salvatore

1959 - Today

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Robert Anthony Salvatore (born January 20, 1959) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. R. A. Salvatore is the 2,995th most popular writer (down from 2,825th in 2019), the 4,321st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,579th in 2019) and the 344th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, R. A. Salvatore ranks 2,995 out of 7,302. Before him are Bruce Sterling, Friedrich von Lütke, Xanthus, Heinrich Vogeler, Francis Beaumont, and Yūko Tsushima. After him are Georg Herwegh, Grigol Abashidze, Rafael de Nogales Méndez, Terentianus, Hans Aanrud, and Fazil Iskander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, R. A. Salvatore ranks 153. Before him are Henry Czerny, Jim Yong Kim, Koichi Tanaka, Martin Brundle, Aidan Quinn, and Massimo Bonini. After him are John C. McGinley, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Roberto Moreno, Nobuo Uematsu, Vincent Lindon, and Jonathan Franzen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, R. A. Salvatore ranks 4,321 out of 20,380. Before him are Chad Hurley (1977), Eddie Vedder (1964), Seth Rollins (1986), Bruce Sterling (1954), Patti Page (1927), and Ellen Church (1904). After him are Henry Hazlitt (1894), Horace Silver (1928), Claire Trevor (1910), John C. McGinley (1959), Stanley Schachter (1922), and Robert Stack (1919).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, R. A. Salvatore ranks 344. Before him are K. A. Applegate (1956), Willa Cather (1873), Mickey Spillane (1918), Edgar Lee Masters (1868), L. Sprague de Camp (1907), and Bruce Sterling (1954). After him are Anne McCaffrey (1926), Henrietta Szold (1860), Stephenie Meyer (1973), Jim Carroll (1949), Elmore Leonard (1925), and Howard Fast (1914).

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