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ghost writer

NOUN
actual but not official author
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The 60-year-old ghost writer in Pittsford, N.Y., left the store without making a purchase.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Nick Pavlidis, a publisher, ghost writer and trainer of ghost writers, launched the online Beantown Books in 2023 and has since opened a small physical store in suburban Boston.

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2024

The eulogies reflected that feeling, delivered wonderfully by the Reverend Canon Huw Mosford and Bennett's former ghost writer, journalist Graham Thomas.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2022

Oakeshott was the ghost writer behind Brexit funder Arron Banks’s book “The Bad Boys of Brexit.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2019

When a celebrity pens their autobiography, a ghost writer is usually brought in to make the prose coherent.

From Golf Digest • Feb. 27, 2018




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