Famous Books By Ghost Writers
A ghost writer is a writer that is hired to write on behalf of someone else’s name. Such writers in many cases, remains anonymous and their name does not appear on any of their written or published work. However, while a piece of written work may be ghostwritten, it no where mean that the credited author did not contribute to the written work significantly. |
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The credited author adds extensively with the ghost writer, spending good amounts of time with him or her to produce the final product. However, in the end, the ghost writer is the one to actually write the material. While in some cases, a ghost writer is hired to edit or polish the existing work and make it ready for publication. Such ghost writing has resulted in some of the best work so far. A few of them are –
- John F. Kennedy was accused of having the Pulitzer Prize winning work Profiles in Courage ghostwritten, mainly by his assistant Theodore Sorenson, but the two of them rejected such claims.
- Barbara Feinman was the ghostwriter for It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us by Hillary Clinton. Clinton later won a Grammy Award for a recording of her memoirs, Living History.
- William Shatner used a ghostwriter for his science-fiction books.
- H. P. Lovecraft served as a ghostwriter for Harry Houdini.
- The novelization of Star Wars (credited to George Lucas) was written by Alan Dean Foster.
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