5/12/2023 0 Comments Confessions of an heiress“Paris gave me such free rein, it’s crazy,” Ginsberg recalls. Merle Ginsberg co-authored Paris Hilton’s 2004 best-seller Confessions of an Heiress, and she isn’t sure whether her “author” ever read the final edit. Intimacy is the currency of memoir, and to preserve that feeling of direct access, the ghost’s job is, quite literally, to disappear.Įven it’s the celebrity who keeps disappearing. But while the rise of the celebrity memoir has, to some extent, softened the stigma associated with “collaboration,” the demands of marketing, personal branding, and political posturing still require many ghosts - and their methods - to stay in the shadows. Kennedy won a Pulitzer for Profiles in Courage, a book his speechwriter acknowledged ghosting. (Last year, one agent estimated the figure to be at least 60 percent.) Ghostwriting isn’t a new phenomenon - John F. Recruited by literary agents and book editors to turn celebrity confessions into juicy beach reads and war stories into best-selling thrillers, they’re the men and women behind perhaps half of America’s best-selling nonfiction.
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