The Ghostwriters Behind the Books: An Inside Look at Publishing’s Invisible Authors

Lindsey Chastain
6 min readFeb 16, 2024

Have you ever read a celebrity memoir or motivational business book and wondered if the famous name on the cover actually wrote it? The world of publishing has a long tradition of ghostwriting — writers who author books officially credited to someone else. On a recent episode of Missing Pages, host Bethanne Patrick pulls back the curtain on the controversial practice of ghostwriting.

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Lindsey Chastain

I’ve always wanted to be someone. I guess I should have been more specific.