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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 1,377,941 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. R. A. Salvatore is the 2,770th most popular writer (up from 3,039th in 2019), the 3,623rd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,922nd in 2019) and the 325th most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, R. A. Salvatore ranks 2,770 out of 5,755. Before him are Ludwig Rellstab, Cassandra Clare, Erich Fried, Suzanne Curchod, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, and Guiraut Riquier. After him are Aleksander Fredro, Jean-François de La Harpe, Na Hye-sok, Henry Kuttner, David Eddings, and Eumelus of Corinth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, R. A. Salvatore ranks 110. Before him are Stephen Harper, David Shore, Byung-Chul Han, Jon Fosse, John Magufuli, and Abdul Ahad Mohmand. After him are Helmuth Duckadam, Mark Williams, Peter Mensah, Vazgen Sargsyan, James Wong, and Ralf Moeller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, R. A. Salvatore ranks 3,623 out of 18,182. Before him are Halton Arp (1927), John Petrucci (1967), Burl Ives (1909), James Edward Keeler (1857), Charles Robert Jenkins (1940), and Don Nelson (1940). After him are Gore Verbinski (1964), Michael Jai White (1967), Michael Gazzaniga (1939), Crawford Long (1815), John Mearsheimer (1947), and David Blaine (1973).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, R. A. Salvatore ranks 325. Before him are Richard Bandler (1950), Hal Clement (1922), Joyce Meyer (1943), Jeff Lindsay (1952), Paul Gallico (1897), and L. Sprague de Camp (1907). After him are Henry Kuttner (1915), David Eddings (1931), Laura Bridgman (1829), Alice B. Toklas (1877), Vonda N. McIntyre (1948), and Hubert Selby Jr. (1928).

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