

He promptly changed his major from computerscience to journalism. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings as a Christmas gift. His love affair with fantasy, and with literature in general, began during his sophomore year of college when he was given a copy of J.R.R. Since that time, Salvatore has published numerous novels for each of his signature multi-volume series including The Dark Elf Trilogy, Paths of Darkness, The Hunter’s Blades Trilogy, and The Cleric Quintet. Salvatore’s first published novel, The Crystal Shard from TSR in 1988, became the first volume of the acclaimed Icewind Dale Trilogy and introduced an enormously popular character, the dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden.

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 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 regularly appear on The New York Times best-seller lists and have sold more than 10,000,000 copies. Salvatore enjoys an ever-expanding and tremendously loyal following. Urn:oclc:877794352 Republisher_date 20120507004253 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120505231434 Scanner one of the fantasy genre’s most successful authors, R.A. OL8144548M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work Urn:lcp:homelanddarkelft00rasa:epub:71c94527-86bf-4c2b-a48e-3a575726e0a5 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier homelanddarkelft00rasa Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8ff4wq82 Isbn 9780786939534ġ415638373 Lccn 2004116918 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL8144548M Openlibrary_edition DonorĪllen_countydonation Edition External-identifier Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:45:04 Boxid IA177801 Boxid_2 CH105401 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Renton, Wash.
