George Walton Lucas, Jr. is a four-time Academy Award nominated American film director, producer, and screenwriter famous for his epic "Star Wars" saga and Indiana Jones films — the latter a collaboration with his friend Steven Spielberg. He is one of American film industry's most financially successful independent directors and producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.6 billion.

John Towner Williams (born February 8 1932) is an American composer, conductor and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in history, including those for "Jaws", "Star Wars", "Superman", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Jurassic Park", "Schindler's List", "Hook", "Memoirs of a Geisha", and "Harry Potter".

Timothy Zahn (born September 1, 1951) is a science fiction novelist. He is best known for the Thrawn Trilogy, a Star Wars Expanded Universe series that takes place five years after the end of "Return of the Jedi". Zahn's work isn't limited to Star Wars; he also wrote the Dragonback series and the popular "Conquerors' Trilogy", …

Stephen J. Sansweet (born 1945) is the Director of Content Management and Head of Fan Relations at Lucasfilm and the owner of the world's largest private collection of Star Wars memorabilia. Sansweet is also the author of 12 books, 10 of them about Star Wars. He lives in Northern California.

Ralph McQuarrie (b. June 13 1929, Gary, Indiana) is a conceptual designer and futurist responsible for the look of "Star Wars" (all of the original trilogy), the original "Battlestar Galactica" (TV), "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and "Cocoon", for which he won an Academy Award. He is a contemporary of Syd Mead, another conceptual designer/futurist, with whom he attended school. "RMQ", as he is known to sign original works, …

Richard McCallum (born 1952 in Heidelberg, Germany) is a film producer most famous for his work on the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy and special editons as well as "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles". He also worked extensively with the British television writer Dennis Potter, producing much of Potter's later work in the late 1980s and early 1990s after Potter parted company with his long-term producer Kenith Trodd.

Karen Traviss is a science fiction author and full-time novelist from Wiltshire, England. Originally from the Portsmouth area, Traviss worked as both a journalist and defence correspondent before turning her attention to writing fiction. She also served in both the Territorial Army and the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service. Traviss is a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy workshop. Her first published novel, "City of Pearl" (2004), …

Joseph John Campbell was an American mythology professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion.

Troy Denning (b. 1958) is a fantasy and science fiction author of the "New York Times" bestselling novel "Waterdeep" (1989), which he wrote with Scott Ciencin under the pseudonym "Richard Awlinson". Other notable works are "Dragonwall", "Pages of Pain" and "The Parched Sea". He is also known for his work on the epilogue to the Avatar Trilogy, "Crucible: The Trial of Cyric The Mad".

Brian Daley (born Brian Charles Daley, 22 December 1947, Englewood, NJ; died, 11 February 1996 in Maryland, of pancreatic cancer) was an American science fiction novelist. In addition to writing a number of novels, he is well known for writing the scripts for the "Star Wars" radio dramas.

James Luceno (born in 1947) is the "New York Times" bestselling author of three "Star Wars: The New Jedi Order" novels, "Agents of Chaos: Hero's Trial", "Agents of Chaos: Jedi Eclipse" and "The Unifying Force". He also wrote the eBook "Darth Maul: Saboteur". This ebook was effectively a prologue to his "prequel trilogy" novel, set directly before "The Phantom Menace", called "Cloak of Deception".

Jan Duursema is an artist who has produced illustrations for many "Star Wars" comics. She was the creator of Denin and Vila from Naldar, the Twi'lek Jedi Aayla Secura and the Kiffar Jedi Quinlan Vos. She often works with John Ostrander. She is married to artist Tom Mandrake, both of whom did the art for "Marvel Star Wars 92: The Dream". She was the basis for the character Ur-Sema Du. Outside Star Wars, …

Kathy Tyers (born July 21, 1952) is an American author and musician currently living in Bozeman, Montana.

Robert Anthony Salvatore, Massachusetts, who writes under the name R. A. Salvatore, is a fantasy author best known for "The DemonWars Saga", his "Forgotten Realms" novels and the controversial Star Wars: The New Jedi Order novel Vector Prime.

Drew Karpyshyn is a video game writer and novelist. He spent the majority of his early adult life employed in many menial and servile professions like loan officer. When an old driver crashed into his car at an intersection, these jobs ceased and he became a novelist and game designer for Wizards of the Coast and BioWare. He wrote the majority of the script for the acclaimed "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic". He also worked on the Baldur's Gate series, …

Doug Chiang is an American movie designer and artist. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1962 and grew up in the United States. Chiang studied film at UCLA and industrial design at the College for Creative Studies. During the late 1980's he worked at various production studios including Rhythm and Hues. Chiang eventually joined Industrial Light and Magic as a creative director where he worked on films such as "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Forrest Gump".

Gregory Keyes is a writer of science fiction and fantasy who has written both original and media-related novels under both the names "J. Gregory Keyes" and "Greg Keyes". He is famous for his quartet "The Age of Unreason", a steampunk/alchemical story starring Benjamin Franklin and Isaac Newton. He wrote the Babylon 5 "Psi Corps" trilogy, a history of the Psi Corps and a biography of Psi Corps member Alfred Bester.

Marcia Lucas (b. 1945) is an American film editor. She met George Lucas at film school at the University of Southern California, and they were married from 1969 to 1983. They adopted one daughter, Amanda, who was born in 1981. Lucas won an Academy Award for her work editing "Star Wars" (later retitled "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope"), which was shared with two others.

The Infinite Force is the pen name of a a science fiction author and full-time blogger from Northern New Jersey, United States. Beginning in 2005, he gained great acclaim for his blog, the Infinite Galaxy Of Fun, located on the official Star Wars website. His work within the Star Wars universe has frequently been praised as "cutting edge" and "incredibly original". His award winning work includes a multi-part dissertation on the rise and fall of Palpatine, …

Suzy Rice (Susan Elizabeth Rice) is a screenwriter, author of fiction, painter and designer. She designed the "Star Wars" logo, as well as many other film logo designs for print advertising and some filmed applications. Also, she has worked as an art director for Seiniger Advertising and Lucasfilm, Ltd. and as an assistant art director and designer for "Rolling Stone" magazine.