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by Graham Lee
Many autobiographies of famous people involve a certain amount of ghostwriting, if the subject and alleged author is not a professional writer. An actual writer listens to their stories, interviews them, maybe gets them to draft some anecdotes or chapters, then works all of that up into a narrative that a potential audience might consider readable, all the while trying to maintain some sense of the "authentic" subject's voice. It is common for that ghostwriter to get a byline on the cover, as in "iWoz" by Steve Wozniak with Gina Smith, or "Under the Radar" by Robert Young and, in smaller letters, Wendy Goldman Bohm. Sometimes, you have to hunt around to work out who the ghostwriter is, as in "Lean In" by Sheryl Sandberg (and Nell Scovell, who may have done well to read the message in that very book about getting a seat at the table).
