The Essential Guide to Characters

The book provides biographical information on characters from throughout the Star Wars saga, drawn from sources both well-known and obscure.

The New Essential Guide to Characters, an updated version of the book, was published in 2002 to include characters from Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, the New Jedi Order novel series, and other sources.

At Celebration V, Pablo Hidalgo announced a third edition of Characters, authored by Daniel Wallace, and gave a release date of 2013 at Celebration VI. However, this book was eventually canceled.