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
And she always told this funny story where she would say, Marty read the draft opinion and sort of hollered, Ruthie, did you write this for him, did you ghostwrite this thing?
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2020
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
Content strategist Larissa McCarty, whose role involves ghostwriting on LinkedIn, has undergone a similar shift in thinking.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025
Like many hardworking Americans, Barnett gradually rebuilt his finances, thriving in the mid-to-late 2010s by ghostwriting and performing consulting work.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2024
Zehme, who wrote for Rolling Stone and other major magazines, had authored books on Frank Sinatra and Andy Kaufman in addition to ghostwriting memoirs for Regis Philbin and Leno.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 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
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
Together with an associate, she founded Porte-Plume, a niche press that specializes in ghostwritten family biographies and corporate books.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
First released in January 2023, "Spare" was ghostwritten with J. R. Moehringer and published by Penguin Random House.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 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
One early client was Al Hirshberg, who ghostwrote “Fear Strikes Out,” Jimmy Piersall’s memoir of baseball and mental illness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
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
With Maggie’s input, Ellet ghostwrote a book about Maggie and Elisha’s relationship.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
