[Rick Lee]

I saw Bristol Palin's "autobiography" in the local grocery store yesterday. I didn't pick it up to look for the ghost writer's credit, but I'm pretty sure she didn't sit down to type that manuscript out. Some of the brainier types seem to put out books just a little too often to have really written them themselves. How do Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck, who have tv and radio shows and a newspaper column, find time to bang out a book every year or two? I think the most money Obama has ever made is from his campaign books, which he certainly didn't have time to write himself. Just curious why none of these ghost writers are known to anyone. Perhaps that's the publishers' doing. I make it rule to not buy a book with the "author's" photo on the cover. I don't think too many of them wrote a single sentence by their own hand.