alexander dumas used a ghost writer?

No it was not. Alexandre Dumas, for all of his talent as a storyteller, had a lot of help researching as well as writing his stories; that was one of the reasons he was so prolific; one of the reasons was that his imagination was so active that having people help him with his books was the result of his imagination having so many ideas that it caused him to need several people to help him develop his ideas into stories.

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- Fezzik, " The Princess Bride " ( 1987 )