R.A. Salvatore





R.A. Salvatore

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in Leominster, The United States
January 20, 1959

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Ian Fleming, Arthur Conan Doyle, Fritz Leiber, and of course, J.R.R. T...more


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As one of the fantasy genre’s most successful authors, R.A. Salvatore enjoys an ever-expanding and tremendously loyal following. His books regularly appear on The New York Times best-seller lists and have sold more than 10,000,000 copies. Salvatore’s most recent original hardcover, The Two Swords, Book III of The Hunter’s Blade Trilogy (October 2004) debuted at # 1 on The Wall Street Journal best-seller list and at # 4 on The New York Times best-seller list. His books have been translated into numerous foreign languages including German, Italian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Turkish, Croatian, Bulgarian, Yiddish, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Czech, and French.

Salvatore’s first published novel, The Crystal Shard from TSR in 1988, beca...more


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How long lived our memory of you when you are gone? Because in the end, that is the only measure. - Drizzt Do'Urden

In The Companions R.A. Salvatore launches a major world-shaping event that will move Drizzt into a restored era of the Forgotten Realms.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 290,746 ratings · 5,110 reviews · 245 distinct works · Similar authors
Homeland (Forgotten Realms:...
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 19,761 ratings — published 1990 — 25 editions
Exile (Forgotten Realms: Th...
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 17,347 ratings — published 1990 — 23 editions
Sojourn (Forgotten Realms: ...
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 17,005 ratings — published 1990 — 25 editions
The Crystal Shard (Forgotte...
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 16,163 ratings — published 1988 — 24 editions
The Halfling's Gem (Forgott...
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 13,806 ratings — published 1990 — 23 editions
Streams of Silver (Forgotte...
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 13,306 ratings — published 1989 — 24 editions
The Dark Elf Trilogy Collec...
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 11,063 ratings — published 1980 — 10 editions
The Legacy (Forgotten Realm...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 9,911 ratings — published 1992 — 24 editions
Starless Night (Forgotten R...
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 9,764 ratings — published 1992 — 21 editions
Siege of Darkness (Forgotte...
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 9,406 ratings — published 1993 — 20 editions
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“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn

“No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.”
R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver

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