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
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
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
He says Kaufman asked him to ghostwrite a Son-Rise manual.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2017
His quote appeared in the April 18, 1988, issue of the New Republic, in an article by Ari Posner about ghostwriting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
I’ve argued that this is more akin to ghostwriting, since the student isn’t copying from an original source.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 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
Content strategist Larissa McCarty, whose role involves ghostwriting on LinkedIn, has undergone a similar shift in thinking.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 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
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
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
