amanuensis

And, like any proper old hotel, the place is said to be haunted, most famously by the ghost of Alice B. Toklas, a writer and literary amanuensis primarily famous for having been written about by her life partner, Gertrude Stein.

Bart was an untrained tune savant, a latter-day Irving Berlin; if the songs are so hummable it’s probably because his composition method was built on humming them to an amanuensis.

That’s something filmmaker Andrew Rossi works extensively to change in his six-part Netflix documentary series “The Andy Warhol Diaries,” executive produced by Ryan Murphy, which draws on the pop artist’s most intimate source material, the diaries he dictated daily to his amanuensis Pat Hackett between 1976 and his 1987 death.

She became not only Wiggins’ full-time caregiver but her amanuensis and archivist.

When it comes to John Watson, Holmes’s best friend, amanuensis and sometimes roommate, Holmes criticizes him, deceives him, disappears for years and lets Watson believe him dead.