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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of R. A. Salvatore has received more than 1,437,637 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). R. A. Salvatore is the 2,825th most popular writer (down from 2,760th in 2019), the 3,579th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,613th in 2019) and the 308th most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, R. A. Salvatore ranks 2,825 out of 7,302. Before him are Benjamin Fondane, Juan Marsé, Vilhelm Moberg, Ram Prasad Bismil, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, and Jorge Bucay. After him are Aeneas Tacticus, Wolfgang Iser, Louis Couperus, Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Hitoshi Igarashi, and Adam Michnik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, R. A. Salvatore ranks 130. Before him are Catherine Keener, Jim Yong Kim, Stephen Harper, Helmuth Duckadam, Roberto Fiore, and Henry Czerny. After him are Jonathan Franzen, Patrick Bruel, Adri van der Poel, Hassan Diab, Ferzan Özpetek, and Brian Thompson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, R. A. Salvatore ranks 3,579 out of 20,380. Before him are Joe Viterelli (1937), Dave Grusin (1934), Rick Barry (1944), Jean Acker (1893), Charles Martinet (1955), and Pat Boone (1934). After him are David Harbour (1975), Melissa Etheridge (1961), Elmore James (1918), Larry Wall (1954), David Graeber (1961), and James Rebhorn (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, R. A. Salvatore ranks 308. Before him are Harold Robbins (1916), Carl Bernstein (1944), John Zerzan (1943), Varian Fry (1907), Larry Niven (1938), and Carl Sandburg (1878). After him are Ben Hecht (1893), William L. Shirer (1904), Anne McCaffrey (1926), Maurice Sendak (1928), Jonathan Franzen (1959), and Jack Williamson (1908).

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