Star Wars Biography Skywalker: A Family at War Announced

Star Wars is ultimately about family. And this new book aims to dive deep into the most problematic family ever.



Revealed yesterday, Skywalker: A Family at War will deal with three generations of the Skywalker family across nine films and several other pieces of canon media. Associate editor of StarWars.com Kristin Baver will explore not only the characters' lives, but also the key events linked to them that changed the Star Wars universe forever. From Shmi Skywalker to Ben Solo and the scavenger Rey, this book has it all.



Baver had this to say about the experience of working on this historical recount of sorts:

This Week! In Star Wars also unveiled a first look at the book's gorgeous cover, created by Matt Ferguson, the man responsible for last year's breathtaking 40th anniversary poster for The Empire Strikes Back. Of course, this piece is greatly inspired by the original art that accompanied A New Hope when it first hit theaters:

With the brand-new High Republic publishing efforts already topping best-sellers lists, Star Wars literature is slowly shifting towards new horizons, but avid readers will always have a soft spot for the Skywalkers.



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