James Kahn

James Kahn is an American physician-turned-writer, born December 30, 1947, in Chicago. He earned a medical degree from the University of Chicago and trained in emergency medicine, practicing as an ER doctor through the 1980s and 1990s while writing tie-in novelizations for "Return of the Jedi," "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," "Poltergeist," and "The Goonies," as well as his own New World science-fiction trilogy. He also wrote for television series including "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Star Trek: Voyager," and "Melrose Place," and later worked as a singer-songwriter and independent filmmaker.