question: The Lake of Death is a fantasy novel by a fantasy and science fiction author and editor who has worked on Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms, and who was born on June 19th in what year?
answer: 1957
context: Title: The Elminster Series
  Passage: The Elminster Series is a series of fantasy novels by author Ed Greenwood.  The novels are set in the "Forgotten Realms" setting created by Greenwood for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game.  The series focuses on the titular character Elminster who was a key figure in several of Greenwood's other novels set in the Forgotten Realms setting.  Elminster was known as a powerful wizard or mage known as "The One Who Walks" and eventually "The Sage of Shadowdale."  This series seeks to present the backstory of Elminster's life as well as provide a history of other important events in this particular fantasy setting.
  Title: Drizzt Do'Urden
  Passage: Drizzt Do'Urden is a fictional character in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game.  Drizzt was created by author R. A. Salvatore as a supporting character in the "Icewind Dale Trilogy".  Salvatore created him on a whim when his publisher needed to replace another character in Salvatore's first novel, "The Crystal Shard".  Drizzt has since become a popular heroic character of the Forgotten Realms setting, and has been featured as the main character of a long series of books, starting chronologically with "The Dark Elf Trilogy".  As an atypical drow (dark elf), Drizzt has forsaken both the evil ways of his people and their home in the Underdark, in the drow city of Menzoberranzan.
  Title: War of the Spider Queen
  Passage: War of the Spider Queen is a fantasy series of novels set in the "Forgotten Realms" universe published by Wizards of the Coast.  The series contains six books focused on the drow and their principal deity Lolth.  Each of the six novels in the series is written by a different author with veteran Forgotten Realms author R. A. Salvatore overseeing the project.  Cover art for each book in the series was designed by Gerald Brom who has done other Forgotten Realms work including reprints of The Avatar Series.
  Title: The Lake of Death
  Passage: The Lake of Death is a fantasy novel by Jean Rabe, set in the world of Dragonlance, and based on the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game.  It is the sixth novel in the "Age of Mortals" series.  It was published in paperback in October 2004.  It the story of Dhamon Grimwulf, the main antagonist from "Dragons of a New Age" and "The Dhamon Saga".
  Title: Elaine Cunningham
  Passage: Elaine Cunningham (born August 12, 1957 in New York City) is an American fantasy and science fiction author, especially known for her contributions to the "Dungeons & Dragons" role playing game campaign setting of Forgotten Realms, including the realms of Evermeet, Halruaa, Ruathym and Waterdeep.
  Title: Neverwinter Saga
  Passage: Neverwinter Saga is a saga written in the Forgotten Realms campaign world, a popular "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing setting, by fantasy and science fiction author R.A. Salvatore.  The tetralogy begins with "Gauntlgrym" which is set twenty-four years after the events of "The Ghost King".  "Gauntlgrym" is also the twentieth book concerning one of Salvatore's famous characters, Drizzt Do'Urden.  The saga contains "Gauntlgrym", "Neverwinter", "Charon's Claw", and "The Last Threshold".  This tetralogy is preceded by The Transitions Series.
  Title: Jeff Grubb
  Passage: Jeff Grubb (born August 27, 1957) is an author of novels, short stories, and comics and a computer and role-playing game designer in the fantasy genre.  Grubb worked on the "Dragonlance" campaign setting under Tracy Hickman, and the "Forgotten Realms" setting with Ed Greenwood.  His written works include "The Finder's Stone Trilogy", the "Spelljammer" and "Jakandor" campaign settings and contributions to "Dragonlance" and the computer game "Guild Wars Nightfall" (2006).
  Title: Ed Greenwood
  Passage: Ed Greenwood (born July 21, 1959) is a Canadian-born fantasy writer and the original creator of the "Forgotten Realms" game world.  He began writing articles about the Forgotten Realms for "Dragon" magazine beginning in 1979, and subsequently sold the rights to the setting to TSR, the creators of the "Dungeons & Dragons" roleplaying game, in 1986.  He has written many Forgotten Realms novels, as well as numerous articles and "D&D" game supplement books.
  Title: Elaith Craulnober
  Passage: Elaith Craulnober is a fictional character in the Forgotten Realms fantasy campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game.  Elaith is often used by author Elaine Cunningham and has appeared in many of her novels, namely, "Elfshadow", "Elfsong", "Silver Shadows", "Dream Spheres", and briefly as a very young child in "Evermeet: Island of Elves".  He is often portrayed as a cunning and opportunistic elven rogue with an infamous reputation, although the Forgotten Realms campaign setting presents him as a fighter/wizard.  The author uses him both as an antihero and a recurring villain, and is often referred as "The Serpent."  Elaith has also made an appearance in Neverwinter Nights as a merchant who has taken up a calmer outlook on life.
  Title: Jean Rabe
  Passage: Jean Rabe (born June 19, 1957) is a fantasy and science fiction author and editor who has worked on the Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, and BattleTech series, as well as many others.
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