Claim: Pablo Fenjves wrote for someone who wrote.

A ghostwriter is a person who is hired to author books , manuscripts , screenplays , speeches , articles , songs , blog posts , stories , reports , white papers , or other texts that are officially credited to another person . Celebrities , executives , participants in timely news stories , and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies , memoirs , magazine articles , or other written material . In music , ghostwriters are often used to write songs , lyrics and instrumental pieces . Screenplay authors can also use ghostwriters to either edit or rewrite their scripts to improve them .   Usually , there is a confidentiality clause in the contract between the ghostwriter and the credited author that obligates the former to remain anonymous . Sometimes the ghostwriter is acknowledged by the author or publisher for his or her writing services , euphemistically called a `` researcher '' or `` research assistant '' , but often the ghostwriter is not credited .   Ghostwriting -LRB- or simply `` ghosting '' -RRB- also occurs in other creative fields . Composers have long hired ghostwriters to help them to write musical pieces and songs ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an example of a well-known composer who was paid to ghostwrite music for wealthy patrons . Ghosting also occurs in popular music . A pop music ghostwriter writes lyrics and a melody in the style of the credited musician . In hip hop music , the increasing use of ghostwriters by high-profile hip-hop stars has led to controversy . In the visual arts , it is not uncommon in either fine art or commercial art such as comics for a number of assistants to do work on a piece that is credited to a single artist . However , when credit is established for the writer , the acknowledgement of their contribution is public domain and the writer in question would not be considered a ghostwriter .