I was interviewed a while back by a reporter for the Arizona Republic for an article about the use of ghostwriters, co-writers and other related phenomena in today's publishing world: "Whodunit? Your favorite author may be just a brand name."
It's an interesting topic for "inside baseball" fans to discuss, but I don't think the majority of readers give a whit who actually wrote the book. As a critic, I do sometimes find it a little frustrating, though.
(I'd forgotten all about this, so a tip o' the hat to Sarah for finding the piece.)
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