Pablo Hidalgo has been writing professionally about Star Wars since 1995. In 2000, he joined Lucasfilm to become a full-time Star Wars authority, first as a StarWars.com writer, and now as a creative executive in story development. He has written or co-written several authoritative Star Wars reference books, including Star Wars: Year by Year and Star Wars: The Essential Reader's Companion, as well as guidebooks to other brands such as Hasbro's G.I. Joe and Transformers. He lives in San Francisco.
Dr. David West Reynolds earned his PhD in archeology at the University of Michigan. A lecturer, veteran of field expeditions on three continents, and author of scientific archeological publications, Reynolds has also written five
Star Wars books, including DK's best-selling
Star Wars: Incredible Cross-sections and
Star Wars: Complete Vehicles. James Luceno is the best-selling author of
Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader and three
Star Wars: The New Jedi Order novels, among many others.
Ryder Windham is the author of more than 60
Star Wars titles, including
Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection and the New York Times-bestseller
Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide. An occasional freelance cartoonist and storyboard artist, he is also an instructor and the Certificate Program Advisor for Comics and Sequential Art at Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education.
Jason Fry is the author of
The Jupiter Pirates young-adult space-fantasy series and has written or co-written more than 30 novels, short stories, and other works set in the galaxy far, far away, including
The Essential Atlas and the
Servants of the Empire quartet. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, son and about a metric ton of
Star Wars stuff.
