{"title": "(Salvatore, R. A., 1959- )", "personal_name": "R. A. Salvatore", "photos": [7252551, 6392319], "name": "R. A. Salvatore", "alternate_names": ["Robert Anthony Salvatore", "R Salvatore", "R A Salvatore", "R-A Salvatore", "R.A. Salvatore", "R. A Salvatore", "Robert A. Salvatore", "Salvatore Robert", "r. a. salvatore"], "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "source_records": ["amazon:1536638900", "ia:mushiwubuqu0000saer", "amazon:6053757063", "bwb:9780062688620", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-12-12", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2023-02-02:P8-CHF-895", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-08-29:KR-226-147", "amazon:975273085X", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-03-03", "amazon:8834411986", "amazon:1504080580", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2023-03-22:KS-204-512", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2023-07-18:W8-APJ-719", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.10.20150123.full.mrc:139411934:758", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2020-11-24", "bwb:9780593873120", "ia:homeland0000rasa"], "birth_date": "20 January 1959", "links": [{"title": "Author's Website", "url": "http://www.rasalvatore.com/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "key": "/authors/OL35996A", "remote_ids": {"viaf": "112374441", "wikidata": "Q316431", "isni": "000000008409725X", "bookbrainz": "d4f2c1cf-08aa-4c20-b6da-7edc0beab9c2", "goodreads": "1023510", "imdb": "nm2446252", "lc_naf": "n85364077"}, "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Robert Anthony Salvatore (born January 20, 1959) is an American author best known for The DemonWars Saga; and The Legend of Drizzt, for which he created the popular character Drizzt Do'Urden; and Vector Prime, the first novel in the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series. He has sold more than 15 million copies of his books in the United States alone and twenty-two of his titles have been New York Times best-sellers."}, "latest_revision": 20, "revision": 20, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-19T19:25:04.255456"}}