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Originally Posted by ischeriad
They should call them biographies, not autobiographies, and nobody would complain.
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I believe the difference is that who provides the data and who has sign off power over the data being presented. The thread seems to complain about a ghostwriter but how about an editor? A ghostwriter is often an editor you puts down on paper the original thoughts of the person who's story is being written. Must the autobiographer be a fantastic story teller as well in order to make a book? We demand a good read but then complain about the source. I believe there is a clear difference between an autobiography that tells the story from the original persons point of view and a biography that takes an independent research point of view with a different set of biases. I would hate to see the terms autobiography and biography mucked up over ghostwriters and editors.
Dale