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, Vonda N. McIntyre, Kevin J. Anderson, Dave Wolverton, Kathy Tyers, Roger MacBride Allen, 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, Nan Fischer, Nancy Richardson, Terry Brooks, Christopher Golden, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Steve Perry, Jim K. Thomas, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, John Whitman, Ryder Windham, J.J. Gardner, William C. Dietz, Aaron Allston, K.W. Jeter, John Peel, Marc Cerasini, David Levithan, Patricia C. Wrede, Kerry Milliron, Bob Eggleton, R. A. Salvatore, Craig Carey, Colin Reeder, Jude Watson, Patricia A. Jackson, A.L. Singer, Anthony Heald, Monica Kulling, James Lucerno, Greg Bear, MOLYICE, Steven Barnes, Troy Denning, Greg Keyes, Tim Lebbon, Andreas Brandhorst, Michael Reaves, Terry Bisson, Elaine Cunningham, Andreas Helweg, Marcia Thornton Jones, Jonathan Hales, Matthew Woodring Stover, Walter Jon Williams, Sean Williams, Shane Dix, Voronica Whitney-Robinson, W. Haden Blackman, Sean Stewart, David Sherman, David Mattingly, Karen Traviss, Jane B. Mason, Sarah Stephens, Judy Blundell, Simon Beecroft, Tracey West, Steele Filipek, Karen Miller, Jake T. Forbes, Christie Golden, Alex Wheeler, Joe Schreiber, Sue Behrent, John Jackson Miller, Various, Paul S. Kemp, Wayne Lo, Jason Fry, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Benjamin Harper, Clare Hibbert, Rob Valois, 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.