R. A. Salvatore

Salvatore is married to Diane Salvatore and the couple has three children together: Bryan, Geno, and Caitlin. He resides in Massachusetts with his family.

Salvatore was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, in a big family of seven members. He attended the Fitchsburg State College and since he was increasingly becoming interested in writing and literature, he changed his major from computers to journalism.

He graduated from college in 1981 with Bachelor of Science Degree in Communications and later in English. He did not take up writing right away after graduation but worked as a bouncer for some time to support himself.

It was in 1982 that Salvatore became more serious about writing full-time and wanted to devote all his time to it. He wrote a manuscript called ‘Echoes of the Fourth Magic’, which he famously wrote in longhand by candlelight.

After he finished the script for ‘Echoes of the Fourth Magic’, he decided to send the work for consideration to TSR, Inc., which is an American game publishing company, and to other publishers as well.

Since TSR was looking for a new writer to write along the lines of ‘Forgotten Realms’, Salvatore was asked to audition for it. He cleared the audition and was hired to write a second book to ‘Forgotten Realms’ in 1987.

In 1988, Salvatore’s first novel was published by TSR--‘The Crystal Shard’. It is a part of ‘The Icewind Dale Trilogy’—the tale of the celebrated drow, Drizzt, the barbarian warrior, Wulfgar, the halfling Regis and a dwarf king.

Other two books from ‘The Icewind Dale Trilogy’ are: ‘Streams of Silver (1988)’ and ‘The Halfling’s Gem (1989)’. ‘The Halfling’s Gem’ appeared in the New York Times Best Seller list in the same year that it released.

Salvatore is best known for ‘The Demon Wars’ saga; his ‘Forgotten Realms’ novels in which he created Drizzt Do'Urden—a righteous dark elf and ‘Vector Prime’--the first novel in the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series.