Short answers, pulled from the story.
Brian Charles Daley entered the world on the 22nd of December 1947 at Englewood Hospital. He grew up in Rockleigh, New Jersey with an older brother named David and a younger sister called Myra.
Graduation came in 1965 when Brian Daley left Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan behind. That same year he joined the army for a one-year tour of duty in Vietnam.
During his college years at Jersey City State College Brian wrote his first novel titled The Doomfarers of Coramonde. This book appeared in print in 1977 under the Coramonde series name to establish him as a science fiction writer ready to enter professional publishing circles.
National Public Radio produced a series of dramatizations based on the original Star Wars film trilogy that Brian adapted all episodes for this broadcast format starting in 1981. The Empire Strikes Back followed in 1983 and Return of the Jedi arrived later in 1997.
James Luceno served as Brian Daley's writing partner for twenty years under the shared pseudonym Jack McKinney. Together they authored over twenty novels for the Robotech franchise between 1987 and 1996 including titles like Genesis, Battle Cry, Homecoming, and many others throughout the late eighties and early nineties.