Adapted from the famous book by RA Salvatore The Legend of Drizzt The Halfling’s Gem At long last Drizzt D’ourden has found a surrogate family to love & stand by through all However in the aftermath of the battle for Mithral Hall Drizzt finds this family in pieces Bruenor Battlehammer is lost thought to be dead; Guenwhyvar--his loyal magical panther--is missing; & Regis The Halfling has been kidnapped by Drizzt’s archenemy Artemis Entreri Meet the Author Robert Anthony Salvatore who writes under the name R A Salvatore is an American author best known for The Demon Wars Saga his Forgotten Realms novels for which he created the popular character Drizzt Do& Urden & 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 & twenty-two of his titles have been New York Times best-sellers Robert Salvatore was born in Leominster Massachusetts the youngest of a family of seven A graduate of Leominster High School Salvatore has credited his high school English teacher with being instrumental in his development as a writer During his time at Fitchburg State College he became interested in fantasy after reading J R R Tolkien&s The Lord of the Rings given to him as a Christmas gift He developed an interest in fantasy & other literature promptly changing his major from computer science to journalism He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communications Media from Fitchburg He earned this degree in 1981 & later a Bachelor of Arts in English Before taking up writing full-time he worked as a bouncer He attributes his fierce & vividly described battle scenes to his experience as a bouncer In the fall of 1997 his letters manuscripts & other professional papers were donated to the RA Salvatore Library at his alma mater Fitchburg State University in Fitchburg Massachusetts