54. Ghostwriters | The Economics of Everyday Things

Channeling the voices of celebrities can be a lucrative career — one that requires empathy and discretion as well as literary chops. Zachary Crockett checks the acknowledgements.

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[jezabel]

Regarding acknowledgment, is there any moral consideration in the industry? It seems corrupt to put your name on something you didn’t produce. I’d like to see the short list of non-ghost written autobiographies.

[Paul_Wetor]

I prefer to see books credited to the celebrity name "with John Ghostwriter". We know celebs are not really writers.

[bavareze]

So ghost writers are a group of people helping rich wannabe writers who lack writing skills.