Brian Daley (born Brian Charles Daley, 22 Dec 1947, Englewood, NJ; died, 11 Feb 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 plays. Pancreatic cancer (also called cancer of the pancreas) is represented by the growth of a malignant tumour within the small pancreas organ. ... An expanded radio dramatization of the original Star Wars trilogy was produced in 1981, 1983, and 1996. ...
Brian was enthralled by the Star Wars saga and very excited by the possibilities it afforded for popularizing science fiction for a mass audience, so he was very pleased to be chosen as the author for the first Star Wars spin-off novels, the three volumes of
Brian was born in Englewood Hospital in Englewood, New Jersey on Dec. 22, 1947.
Brian said he picked Han Solo because Han was the only one who made a moral decision...