Draft:Barbara Feinman Todd

Barbara Feinman Todd is an American writer and author. She has ghostwritten for Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, and Hillary Clinton.

Early life and education
She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982 with a degree in creative writing.

Career
Her first job was as a copy aide at The Washington Post. From working at the Post, she made connections and networked. She did research for the memoirs of both Carl Bernstein and Ben Bradlee.

She moved on from being a researcher and become a ghostwriter. To ghostwrite properly, she would closely study a clients mannerisms and way of speaking.

"“For me, taking on a ghosting gig was like getting that person’s kidney—or maybe their heart—transplanted into my body … My experience was that the act of writing in the voice of others, in addition to being taken away from my own writing, meant that I was being taken away from myself.”"

She received no credit for It Takes a Village

She founded the journalism program at Georgetown University.

Accusations of betrayal by Woodward.

citation

Books

 * Pretend I'm Not Here: How I Worked with Three Newspaper Icons, One Powerful First Lady, and Still Managed to Dig Myself Out of the Washington Swamp (William Morrow, 2017)
 * It Takes a Village (1996) Hillary Clinton (ghostwriter)
 * Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA (1987) Bob Woodward (ghostwriter)
 * A Woman's Place Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (ghostwriter)
 * A Good Life Ben Bradlee (ghostwriter)