nahhh solo is about in his sixties..just like he is in real life, leia and luke are about 8 years younger.
Like it really matters for the original characters anyway..NJO continued with the young jedi knight series...giving all of the EU characters more book time than the original characters. (I waited 19 freaking novels to see Luke throw down in NJO...and when he did, he did lol).
It might be James Luceno (Or somthing he wrote 5-6 of the NJO novels)...he is half of the author who wrote the ROBOTECH novelizations..and did not do bad with SW...
Though nearly every SW novel fan is wishing for one man to pick up a pen and write a another trilogy of Star Wars novels..........TIMOTHY ZAHN. He hinted at some stuff at the end of his last novel, survivor's quest (I am pretty sure that was the name), which was just pre-NJO...and alot of SW fans are hoping for the return of the best Star Wars villian from the EU.