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Barbara Feinman Todd is an American writer and author. She has ghostwritten for Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, and Hillary Clinton.[1]

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Early life and education

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She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982 with a degree in creative writing.[4]

Career

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Her first job was as a copy aide at The Washington Post. From working at the Post, she made connections and networked. She did research for the memoirs of both Carl Bernstein and Ben Bradlee.[4]

She moved on from being a researcher and become a ghostwriter. To ghostwrite properly, she would closely study a clients mannerisms and way of speaking.[4]

“For me, taking on a ghosting gig was like getting that person’s kidney—or maybe their heart—transplanted into my body … My experience was that the act of writing in the voice of others, in addition to being taken away from my own writing, meant that I was being taken away from myself.” [4]


She received no credit for It Takes a Village [5]

She founded the journalism program at Georgetown University.[6]

Accusations of betrayal by Woodward.[2]

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Books

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  • Pretend I'm Not Here: How I Worked with Three Newspaper Icons, One Powerful First Lady, and Still Managed to Dig Myself Out of the Washington Swamp (William Morrow, 2017)
  • It Takes a Village (1996) Hillary Clinton (ghostwriter)
  • Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA (1987) Bob Woodward (ghostwriter)
  • A Woman's Place Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (ghostwriter)
  • A Good Life Ben Bradlee (ghostwriter)

References

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  1. ^ Miller, Laura (February 8, 2017). "The Memoirs of Hillary Clinton's Ghostwriter Are a Dispatch from a Bygone Age in D.C." Slate Magazine.
  2. ^ a b https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/she-said-he-said-journalist-accuses-woodward-of-breathtaking-betrayal/2017/04/14/aaae6bfc-1897-11e7-bcc2-7d1a0973e7b2_story.html
  3. ^ https://account.kansascity.com/paywall/subscriber-only?resume=131091224&intcid=ab_archive
  4. ^ a b c d "Spirited Away: the Life of the Ghostwriter". Cal Alumni Association. July 3, 2017.
  5. ^ "Ghostwriters left on the shelf after bringing political memoirs to book". the Guardian. June 28, 2014.
  6. ^ "LA Times Reporter Named as New Director of Undergraduate Journalism Program". August 31, 2018.
  7. ^ Locker, Ray (9 Feb 2017). "Ghostwriting for Washington's powerful is a game of brittle egos: Barbara Feinman Todd pulls back the curtain in 'Pretend I'm Not Here'". USA TODAY. McLean, Va. p. D4.
  8. ^ https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/02/06/barbara-feinman-todd-bob-woodward-burned-hillary-clinton/
  9. ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/who-wrote-that-political-memoir-no-who-actually-wrote-it/2014/06/09/8e89ccae-f00a-11e3-9ebc-2ee6f81ed217_story.html
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Q&A with Barbara Feinman Todd | C-SPAN.org