Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain: 7 Fiction Authors Whose Careers Were Extended By Ghostwriters

7 Authors Who Ended Up Needing Ghostwriters
PARIS;FRANCE - MAY 05: American author Robert Ludlum poses while in Paris,France to promote his book on the 5th of May 1993.. (Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)
PARIS;FRANCE - MAY 05: American author Robert Ludlum poses while in Paris,France to promote his book on the 5th of May 1993.. (Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)

1. Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum is best known for his Bourne series, which were blockbuster books in their own rights before Matt Damon and Doug Liman turned them into cinematic hits, but Ludlum had a sprawling career writing spy novels before he died in 2001. But death was not the end of Ludlum’s career: With The Bourne Identity movie out in 2002, Ludlum’s books were thrown back into the limelight, and ghostwriters were called in to finish some of his lingering work, beginning with The Janson Directive and quickly followed by a slew of others.

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