As revealed in a tweet from Geoff Keighley producer of The Game Awards, Rob Smith, the author of the comprehensive LucasArts retrospective book "Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts" has passed away.
Rob was also the editor of several gaming magazines over the years. You can read a mis-titled Mojo review of his book here: Rouge Leaders: The Story of LucasArts. There's also an interview with Rob himself about the book still to be found on the web archive, even though the original host site is long gone.
Source: Geoff Keighley's twitter
Rogue Leaders is a really good book that goes into a lot of depth about the early years of LucasArts and the many that followed.
I initially wrote it off as I just wanted some interesting art I hadn’t seen before from Monkey Island and such, and while it had some, it wasn’t so compelling in that department.
But taken as a complete LucasArts origin story, it’s a great read and packed with content. If you can get hold of it, anyway.