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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Salvatore at a [[http://scififanletter.blogspot.com/2010/10/r-salvatore-signing-at-worlds-biggest.html 2010 book signing]].]]
3	[[http://rasalvatore.com/ Robert Anthony Salvatore]] (born January 20, 1959) is a prolific American SpeculativeFiction author from Leominster, Massachusetts.
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5	Though known mainly for his [[ExpandedUniverse licensed fiction]] and particularly as the creator of the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' character [[Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt Drizzt Do'Urden]], Salvatore also has a large library of original works to his name. Initially majoring in computer science, he changed his major to journalism after reading ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. He published his first novel, ''[[Literature/TheIcewindDaleTrilogy The Crystal Shard]]'', in 1988.
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7	He is a big guy; he worked as a bouncer before becoming a full-time writer. He credits some of the way he writes fight scenes to this job.
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9	!!Works by R.A. Salvatore with pages on this wiki:
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11	* [[/index]]''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' {{novelization}} (''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'')[[index]]
12	* ''Literature/TheCrimsonShadow''
13	* ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning'': lead writer
14	* ''Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt'' (''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''): His flagship series. Sorted roughly chronologically:
15	** ''Literature/TheDarkElfTrilogy''
16	** ''Literature/TheIcewindDaleTrilogy''
17	** ''Literature/LegacyOfTheDrowSeries''
18	** ''Literature/TheClericQuintet''
19	** ''Literature/PathsOfDarkness''
20	** ''Literature/TheSellswords''
21	** ''Literature/TheHuntersBladesTrilogy''
22	** ''Literature/WarOfTheSpiderQueen'': lead writer
23	** ''Literature/{{Transitions}}''
24	** ''Literature/TheNeverwinterSaga''
25	** ''Literature/CompanionsCodex''
26	** ''Literature/HomecomingDrizzt''
27	* ''Literature/TheNewJediOrder: Vector Prime'' (''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'')
28	* ''Series/TarzanTheEpicAdventures'' pilot {{novelization}}
29	[[/index]]
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31	!!Other works by Salvatore:
32	%% Please move these into the indexed list as pages are created.
33	* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfYnisAielle''
34	* ''Literature/TheDemonWarsSaga''/''Literature/{{Corona}}''
35	* ''Literature/TheSpearwieldersTale''
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37	!!Tropes common in Salvatore's writing:
38	* AuthorCatchphrase: In a fight scene, expect to repeatedly see a target "blasted" by a strike.
39	* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: He is unfortunately responsible for the much-maligned 1.2 million clone troopers number for ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' and related material, having interpreted "units" as "individual clones" in his novelization. In ''Vector Prime'' he similarly placed Sernpidal orbiting its sun at the same distance the Moon orbits Earth.

Context Creator / RASalvatore