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MY JEDI MEMOIR
“I used to skip class to read James Kahn’s books. What will you do?” - John Scalzi. Author, “Old Man’s War”
JAMES KAHN spent the 1980’s and 1990’s writing for Hollywood and working as an emergency room doctor. His memories of those times provide the fodder for these crazy, funny, poignant, outrageous, surreal, revealing tales.
He also goes in depth about his writing of some of the biggest novelizations of the decade – Poltergeist, The Goonies, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; and especially Return of the Jedi – for which he provides a scene by scene exegesis, exploring the entire novel.
Accompanied by scans of original manuscript pages, this is a never before seen window into the creative process that went into the writing of the classic Jedi novel.
It is most emphatically Star Wars related, a memoir by James Kahn, who has written some extremely popular novelizations, as well as a few novels, and also a number of scripts for popular television shows. In this memoir his focus is on the writing of his novelization of Return of the Jedi, which was the single most popular mass-market paperback in the year it was published (1983), and is still selling to this day--more than three million copies altogether.
James Kahn subtitled the book My Double Life, because he writes also about how he got into writing, and that begins when he was starting out as a doctor, his other life. He has led a rather fascinating life altogether, and he examines his life, both as a writer and as a doctor (as well as a bit of his private life) through the lens of his creative process in writing the novelization of . . . Jedi. He had much greater access to George Lucas than most writers of novelizations have to producers. And he also worked with Steven Spielberg, as a gowned doctor in a key scene in E.T. The Extraterrestrial, and subsequently wrote the novelization of Poltergeist, and later also the novelization of The Goonies. All this is grist for the mill of this memoir, and there's much more--about Star Wars, about working as a screenwriter in Hollywood, and the life he and his family led when they left L.A. and lived in the mountains of Northern California and he worked primarily as a doctor in a rural community hospital.
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