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After a record-breaking points haul last time out, Lawro's opponent for this weekend's Premier League fixtures is author Roddy Doyle, the ghost-writer behind Roy Keane's new autobiography The Second Half.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2014

It is not clear whether this figure included an advance payment to Assange from U.S. publisher Knopf, or whether it included payments intended for Andrew O'Hagan, a British author who agreed to be Assange's ghost-writer.

From Reuters • Sep. 28, 2011

And John Crace digests the relationship between Wayne Rooney and his ghost-writer, Hunter Davies.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2010

In the trade Allen would be known as a "ghost-writer."

From Time Magazine Archive