I know Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe and both of JFK's books were, and the efforts of Harper Lee's editor were so extensive her book To Kill a Mockingbird is more or less co-authored, but any others!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: H!.P!. Lovecraft was a ghostwriter for many people in his day including Harry Houdini! Alan Dean Foster did the star wars trilogy - credited to George Kucas If you've ever heard of the Childrens series 'Goosebumps' a large chunk of that was also ghostwritten!. It's a fascinating subject and not one someone can easily condense into an answer for you!. If this doesn't help just keep researching it as a little digging will get you all kinds of info! Www@QuestionHome@Com For Harper Lee, it is believed Truman Capote is the real Author of "to kill a mocking bird"!. Alexandre Dumas, who wrote many french classics ( Three musketeers, Count of Monte-christo!.!.!.) had a whole bunch of ghostwriters working for him!. Moliere is said to only have written half of his famous plays, he was helped by friends and apprentices!. I think nowadays, ghostwriters are used by celebrities who want to write they silly autobiographies and don't either have the time or the talent to write a book!. In the XIXth century, Dumas' time, it was almost compulsory to have students helping you write!. The man wrote so many books, well over a 1000 pages for some! It's the same with many visual artists such as Michelangelo who had all the credits for the sistine chapel!. He wasn't alone!Www@QuestionHome@Com It is said that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was ghostwritten by her husband Percy Shelley!. But I dunno how far that is true!. It is likely that the contemporary readers could not believe that a woman had the audacity to write such a book (the book was quite controversial in its time) and must have attributed it to Percy who was a radical man!. You may also check this out… http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Ghostwriter Www@QuestionHome@Com Look in the real world!. Decode this lyrics ' Unchain Melody" The Book of the Dead!? Ghostly kitchen's ghost stories filled with ghostly modern history of misery, failures and horrors of tribe of individual community eerily shrieking and wailing in ghostly kitchen's dialect with ghostly and deadly words from the graveyards of tribe of individual community as the best seller being passed off as cheap-skate glory as religion in short-changing, conning and deceiving little children with self lack of knowledge in hitting them hard on the head with the Book of the Dead by the dead Mummy from someone else graveyards in time in kicking them all on the butts in making a monkey out of them in different time zone with them moving backwards in time without being aware of it being expose in time!. Luke 8!.5-8,10-17 Living in misery like cave-men with club on the shoulder from the twilight zone in different time zone at loss and blurred still look green with lost sense of direction and purpose of life in climbing up the coconut tree in "Planet of apes" Luke 6!.39-40,41-45,46-49 What do you think!?Www@QuestionHome@Com The Nancy Drew series!. As well as some political autobiographies, medical books, etc!. http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/GhostwriterWww@QuestionHome@Com |