Robert Anthony Salvatore, who writes under the name R. A. Salvatore, is an American author best known for The DemonWars Saga, his Forgotten Realms novels, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article R. A. Salvatore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.