Star Wars Legends is a 382-book series with 382 released primary works first released in 1653 with contributions by James Luceno, Ron Marz, Jan Duursema, Rick Magyar, Drew Struzan, Nicholas Culpeper, Charles Dickens, George Lucas, Alan Dean Foster, Geraldine Richelson, Brian Daley, Eleanor Ehrhardt, Donald F. Glut, Larry Weinberg, Patricia Wynne, Drew Karpyshyn, Bonnie Bogart, Joan D. Vinge, STAR WARS, James Kahn, Ellen Weiss, Timothy Zahn, Paul Davids, Hollace Davids, timothy-zahn, Paul Davids, Kevin J. Anderson, Dave Wolverton, Vonda N. McIntyre, Kathy Tyers, Doug Beason, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Jennifer Roberson, Tom Veitch, Martha Veitch, M. Shayne Bell, David Bischoff, A.C. Crispin, Kenneth C. Flint, Barbara Hambly, Rebecca Moesta, Daniel Keys Moran, Jerry Oltion, Michael A. Stackpole, Roger MacBride Allen, Terry Brooks, Nan Fischer, Nancy Richardson, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Christopher Golden, Jim K. Thomas, Steve Perry, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, John Whitman, William C. Dietz, Ryder Windham, J.J. Gardner, Aaron Allston, K.W. Jeter, John Peel, Patricia C. Wrede, Kerry Milliron, Bob Eggleton, Jude Watson, David Levithan, Marc Cerasini, R. A. Salvatore, Craig Carey, Colin Reeder, Patricia A. Jackson, Anthony Heald, A.L. Singer, Monica Kulling, James Lucerno, Greg Bear, Steven Barnes, MOLYICE, Greg Keyes, Andreas Brandhorst, Troy Denning, Michael Reaves, Tim Lebbon, Terry Bisson, Elaine Cunningham, Walter Jon Williams, Marcia Thornton Jones, Jonathan Hales, Andreas Helweg, Matthew Woodring Stover, Sean Williams, Shane Dix, Voronica Whitney-Robinson, W. Haden Blackman, David Mattingly, Sean Stewart, David Sherman, Karen Traviss, Jane B. Mason, Sarah Stephens, Simon Beecroft, Judy Blundell, Karen Miller, Tracey West, Steele Filipek, Jake T. Forbes, Alex Wheeler, Christie Golden, Sue Behrent, Joe Schreiber, John Jackson Miller, Various, Paul S. Kemp, Jason Fry, Wayne Lo, Benjamin Harper, Rob Valois, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Clare Hibbert, Jeff Grubb, Wilfrid Lupano, Jean-Baptiste Andreae, Martha Wells, James S. A. Corey, Sue Fliess, Jerrod Maruyama, Jeffrey Brown, John Ostrander, David J. Williams, Mark S. Williams, Ari Marmell, Alexander Freed, and L. Neil Smith.
Star Wars Legends, formerly known as the Expanded Universe (abbreviated EU), encompasses every one of the licensed and background stories of the Star Wars universe, outside of the original six Star Wars films produced by George Lucas and certain other material created before April 25, 2014, excluding the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
It is derived from and includes most official Star Wars books, comic books, video games, spin-off films, television series, toys, and other media created before that date. This material expands and continues the stories told in the films, taking place anywhere from over 36,000 years before The Phantom Menace to 136 years after Return of the Jedi.