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