R. A. Salvatore
American writer (born 1959)
Summary
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.
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Recent revisions
clean up, [[WP:AWB/T|typo(s) fixed]]: four book → four-book
Changing [[Wikipedia:Short description|short description]] from "American writer" to "American writer (born 1959)"
what does "his have sold" mean?
Rescuing 7 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.5
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/* 1980s–90s */ some of the copyediting before was fine, but the fact that Salvatore wasn't exclusively working with TSR anymore is relevant and sets up the next section. so think that should stay more explicit.
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Added education to infobox.
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rvt - is that one novelization lead-worthy though?
