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ghostwrite

[gohst-rahyt] / ˈgoʊstˌraɪt /


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He was commissioned to ghostwrite several other motivational books including “Passion, Profit, & Power” for hypnotist Marshall Sylver and “The Slight Edge” for self-help expert Jeff Olson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

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

His scheme was to devise his own corrective biography, ostensibly with Miller as authorized author, while behind the scenes Roth would, in effect, ghostwrite it with proddings and minute supervisions of method and means.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2021

Hired to ghostwrite BoJack’s memoir in the show’s pilot, uptight, judgmental, dependable Diane stands in stark contrast with the circus around her.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2020

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

But if the work will be submitted for a grade, or to a university for admissions decisions, I cannot market any form of ghostwriting or rewriting.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

Barnett’s consulting and ghostwriting services “dried up with so much of the rest of the economy,” with the pair relying on charity and programs like Meals on Wheels, as well as plenty of oatmeal.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 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

Agents noted that Navatek may have ghostwritten the technical description that accompanied this line item because “an almost identical paragraph” appeared in Hartman’s internal spreadsheets two months before the Senate report became public.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

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

Indeed, it is quite likely that Roberts actually ghostwrote one op-ed that he quoted in Milligan to illustrate the Justice Department’s hostility.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2023

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

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

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock


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