He spent time at ground zero while working as a ghostwriter on the memoir of Bernard B. Kerik, then the police commissioner.
O'Hagan relates his experiences when working as a ghostwriter on an autobiography of the WikiLeaks leader that ended up being published in opposition to its subject's wishes.
At the time, I was working as a ghostwriter, too.
Port began as a ghostwriter for Oleg Cassini ("Just imagine what a 17-year-old's prose is like, pretending to be an Italian designer," she says) and worked as a reporter for most of her 20s until she found editing, or what she calls "a way out of writing".
This facility earned him an invitation to Hollywood; he arrived in 1936 and quickly found lucrative work, first as a ghostwriter and script doctor, then as a screenwriter.
The novel opens on a retiring young woman named Plum, who works as an advice letter ghostwriter for the editor of a popular teen magazine called Daisy Chain.
She also works as a book doctor and ghostwriter, and blogs for Writers & Artists Yearbook.
They are so well told that "Life After Death" sometimes sounds like the work of a ghostwriter.
Her first book, Girl Online, was released in 2014, sparking a debate when it emerged she had worked with a ghostwriter.
