ghostwrite
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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
"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
Years ago, he used to ghostwrite punch lines and comic scenarios for a cartoonist, who published some of their creations, in The New Yorker.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2020
After moving to Paris, author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette agrees to ghostwrite a semi-autobiographical novel for her husband.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2020
He says Kaufman asked him to ghostwrite a Son-Rise manual.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2017
Sometimes the ghostwriting is too obvious, as when a piece carries the byline of a sympathetic plaintiff in a public-interest lawsuit but is written in the bloodless style of an appellate brief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
And most people contend that plagiarism, cheating and ghostwriting are all cut from the same cloth because they all lack the spark that we ascribe to truly original thinking and writing.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
While the official contract cannot explicitly mention the practice of ghostwriting, rewriting, or in-line editing, it can acknowledge revision, commentary, and any form of feedback.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 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
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
Epstein was his own first chronicler, enough of a celebrity by 1964 to publish a ghostwritten memoir, “A Cellarful of Noise.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
First released in January 2023, "Spare" was ghostwritten with J. R. Moehringer and published by Penguin Random House.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 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
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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
Chevron retaliated with a legal onslaught alleging that Donziger effectively ghostwrote the report that led to his success in court.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2021
He ghostwrote Dan Quayle’s memoir and served as deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under Bush.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2019
With Maggie’s input, Ellet ghostwrote a book about Maggie and Elisha’s relationship.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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