Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker

About “Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker”

Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker is a novelization of the 1977 film Star Wars, written by American author Alan Dean Foster but credited to director George Lucas. It was published on November 12, 1976, by Ballantine Books, ahead of the film's release. The book was later republished under the title Star Wars: A New Hope to match the film's subtitle, added in 1981. The novel was ghostwritten and not originally intended to be a standalone work. It served as a literary adaptation of the film, providing a written version of the story before the movie's debut. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)