Other forms: ghostwriters
A ghostwriter is somebody who writes a book that appears under another name. Hire a ghostwriter, the ghostwriter's fee, worked as a ghostwriter.
Most celebrity memoirs are written this way, and the arrangement is an open secret rather than a deception. A good one writes in somebody else's voice, which is a harder skill than writing in your own.
1nounghostwriterSomebody who writes a book that appears under another name.
“The footballer admitted that a ghostwriter had written most of his autobiography.”
ghostwriter is a writer.
Ghost plus writer, from the writer being invisible.
From ghost + writer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA