Obama autobiography ghost writer
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Which celebrity books were ghostwritten? Thousands of memoirs are penned by secret co-authors
Finding out which celebrity books were ghostwritten is a bit of a hobby of mine. Yes, I know it is very exciting when the biography of a hugely famous person lands, especially if you have admired them for years. It’s natural to relish cracking it open and diving right on in to devour their inner-most thoughts. Me? I flick straight to the acknowledgements. I’m looking for the tell-tale signs that a secret co-writer was involved. Euphemisms like ‘thank you to Jo Bloggs for ordering my thoughts’, or ‘this book couldn’t have been written without the help of Pen Master’. Some celebrities hide the name of their co-writer so artfully it can be quite the detective exercise. But, I usually get there in the end.
Which celebrity books were ghostwritten?
Are you intrigued? Perhaps my hobby is not that daft after all. To whet your appetite further, let’s look at some of the most famous examples.
Prince Harry – Spare
Spare became one of the UK’s fastest-selling non fiction books ever, with , copies sold, across all formats, on its first day. Harry was very open about working with ghostwriter JR Moehringer. Indeed, the co-writer even wrote a lengthy piece for The
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In a year that&#;s rife with newly-released books packed with political journalism and insider information about the catastrophic Trump presidency, it can be hard to get people to pay attention to yet another upcoming memoir. However, commanding attention has never been an issue for Barack and Michelle Obama. Michelle&#;s memoir Becoming has moved more than million units since it was first released in , and now, the New York Timesis reporting that former President Barack Obama&#;s new memoir, his third, will be published in November by Penguin Random House shortly after the general election. Pertinently, the memoir, entitled A Promised Land, apparently clocks in at pages and is the first of two volumes.
This massive, epic novel-like length raises questions about whether Obama, already a prolific writer, employed the expertise of a ghostwriter to help flesh out the turbulent years between his political campaign in and the death of Osama bin Laden in In a piece in the Atlantic from May of , sources close to Obama said that he occasionally drops in conversation that he&#;s writing the book himself, whereas Michelle used a ghostwriter in order to finish Becoming. In the acknowledgements of Becoming, it does indeed state that a team of people had a hand in finishing
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Obama is reportedly feeling combative after Michelle's smash-hit report and on occasion says she used a ghostwriter
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