Barbara Feinman Todd entertained Associates
in January with a lecture entitled Speaking for
Myself: A Ghostwriter’s Sorry Tale. Professor Todd has
assisted as ghostwriter, editor and researcher for
senators, journalists, and business leaders on several
high-profile books. She discussed in her lecture how
she became a ghostwriter, her experiences with various
political figures in the course of her writing, and
the ups and downs of a ghostwriting career. The difficulties
inherent in being the invisible “writer” who
takes on the identity of the “author,” seeing
and portraying the subject as the author would see
and portray it, becoming a ventriloquist and suppressing
one’s own voice and perceptions to become the
authentic voice of another, formed the crux of her “sorry
tale.”
Professor Todd is the Associate Dean of Journalism
for the new Masters of Professional Studies, to be
launched next fall in Georgetown’s School of
Continuing Studies (http://cpd.georgetown.edu/mps/dept_mps.htm).
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