Star Wars Year By Year New Edition

Kristin Baver is the Associate Editor of StarWars.com, covering Star Wars news, writing interview features on George Lucas and other important figures in the Star Wars galaxy, as well as spotlighting the dedicated fan community and their impressive and imaginative creations. The author of DK’s Star Wars: Skywalker—A Family at War and a contributor to DK’s Star Wars Year by Year, Kristin is the host of This Week! in Star Wars and The Star Wars Show Book Club. She previously worked as an award-winning journalist covering crime and social issues in central Pennsylvania, but now lives with her cat, Hector Smidget, in San Francisco, California.

Author Pablo Hidalgo is a creative executive within the Lucasfilm Story Group, a resident Star Wars™ authority who helps ensure consistency across a wide array of Star Warsprojects. He has written several DK titles including most recently the bestselling Star Wars: The Force Awakens™ The Visual Dictionary. He lives with his wife in San Francisco, California.

Daniel Wallace is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Characters as well as a dozen more books that explore the underpinnings of the Star Wars universe, such as Star Wars: The New Essential Chronology and The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia. He is a regular contributor to Star Wars Insider magazine and assembled the questions used in the Star Wars Trivial Pursuit game. In addition to his contributions to the galaxy far, far away, he has written for universes including Indiana Jones, Smallville, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics, with books including The Marvel Encyclopedia, The DC Comics Encyclopedia, and The Art of Superman Returns.

Ryder Windham is a former editor of Star Wars comics and has written more than fifty Star Wars books, including Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force and The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader. He is also an instructor and the certificate advisor for the Comic and Sequential Art Certificate Program at Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education.