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ghostwrite

[gohst-rahyt] / ˈgoʊstˌraɪt /


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I was fine letting Gemini ghostwrite emails about insurance claims and refunds, but it didn’t feel right for messages to loved ones, even if the initial draft did sound like me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026

Olivia Dumont is up to her ears in debt when she gets an offer to ghostwrite a memoir for uber-popular horror writer Vincent Taylor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025

"I'm sure everybody aspires to be him. He's such a brilliant writer. It's very hard to ghostwrite a book and at some level never have it sound like it was written by somebody else."

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2023

If you could ghostwrite someone else’s life story, whose would it be?

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2018

He says Kaufman asked him to ghostwrite a Son-Rise manual.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2017

Mr. Rees is the president of Geonomica, a ghostwriting firm, and a senior fellow at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Mr. Rees is the president of Geonomica, a ghostwriting firm, and the editor of Food and Health Facts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025

Content strategist Larissa McCarty, whose role involves ghostwriting on LinkedIn, has undergone a similar shift in thinking.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025

Zehme, who wrote for Rolling Stone and other major magazines, had authored books on Frank Sinatra and Andy Kaufman in addition to ghostwriting memoirs for Regis Philbin and Leno.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

Besides writing for virtually every mass market publication in America, she spent five years ghostwriting the Cholly Knickerbocker society column in the old Journal American.

From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Max Millard

I wrote back: “I am extremely put off by the fakery of this whole exercise, and I question the ethics of a professor’s allowing his name to be put on a ghostwritten piece.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

That same year he released another of his ghostwritten books called “Time to Get Tough,” which had, you guessed it, a chapter called “Take The Oil.”

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2026

He had recently authored a bestselling book, The Art of the Deal, and, though it was entirely ghostwritten and largely embellished, he figured that should give him street cred in the highest realms of deal-making.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2023

In the ghostwritten memoir Harry, 38, recounts his grief at the death of his mother,

From Washington Times ● Jan. 10, 2023

Alan Gould of the Associated Press promptly hired her to cover the Berlin Olympics as a reporter, though in fact her pieces would be ghostwritten.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Fred Trump, according to Tony Schwartz, who ghostwrote the president’s book “The Art of the Deal,” was “a very brutal guy” — a martinet of a father who shipped his son off to military school.

From Salon ● May 31, 2026

After Nixon returned to San Clemente, Khachigian helped him write his autobiography — basically ghostwrote it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2024

It is not his first foray into the world of celebrity memories - he ghostwrote Andre Agassi's memoir, Open, and collaborated with Nike co-founder Phil Knight for his autobiography, Shoe Dog.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2023

One early client was Al Hirshberg, who ghostwrote “Fear Strikes Out,” Jimmy Piersall’s memoir of baseball and mental illness.

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2022

With Maggie’s input, Ellet ghostwrote a book about Maggie and Elisha’s relationship.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock


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