ghost writers
Uncredited manuscript creators
Ghost writers are people who write content credited to someone else.
A celebrity's memoir, a politician's speech, or a CEO's op-ed may be produced by a ghost writer while the named author takes public credit.
The arrangement is usually contractual and understood within publishing, though readers may not realize the listed author didn't write the work.
Also spelled as one word: ghostwriters.
- bookBound written work
- celebrity memoirFamous person's published recollections
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
- authorshipOrigin of written work
- scribeManual document copier
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- literature curiositieslast words, unfinished works, apocrypha, hidden messages, marginalia
- songwritersBob Dylan, songwriter, lyricists, composer, lyricist
- pseudonymspen name, pen names, pseudonym, pseudonyms, nom de plume