Julian Assange's ghostwriter speaks

Long, long article in the London Review of Books of what it was like to be Julian Assange's ghostwriter how frustrating that was.

[url]http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/02/21/andrew-ohagan/ghosting[/url]

He slowly began to realize that Assange never wanted to actually write a book, even with a ghostwriter. Assange never wanted to reveal himself. After signing a contract for millions of dollars for his autobiography, Assange decides that all biography is prostitution and people who write about their familes are weak. He loves the idea of taking a helicopter to a book festival to do a reading, but the idea of the reading his own ghost written manuscript.

[QUOTE]Julian had promised to read the draft over the weekend and the publishers were coming to see him on Monday morning. I