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Ghosting an Autobiography
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 18, Number 1, Winter 1995
- pp. 65-68
- 10.1353/bio.2010.0301
- Article
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The celebrity autobiography is a well-established literary genre into which an unsuspecting biographer may be lured by a subject eager for the resultant publicity and a publisher keen to make a quick profit from a popular book. The author details the subtle differences between straight biography and a "ghosted" book.