occupation auguste maquet
A ___MASK82___ is a person who is hired to ___MASK87___ books , manuscripts , screenplays , speeches , articles , blog posts , stories , reports , whitepapers , or other texts that are officially credited to another person . Celebrities , executives , participants in timely news stories , and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies , memoirs , magazine articles , or other written material . In music , ghostwriters are often used to write songs , lyrics and instrumental pieces . Screenplay authors can also use ghostwriters to either edit or rewrite their scripts to improve them . Alexandre Dumas (, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie ; 24 July 1802  5 December 1870 ), also known as Alexandre Dumas , " père ", was a French ___MASK9___ . His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages , and he is one of the most widely read French authors . Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials , including " The Count of Monte Cristo ", " The Three Musketeers ", " Twenty Years After ", and "". His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films . Dumas ' last novel , " The Knight of Sainte - Hermine ," unfinished at his death , was completed by a scholar and published in 2005 , becoming a bestseller . It was published in English in 2008 as " The Last Cavalier ." The Three Musketeers is a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas . The ___MASK100___ of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by French ___MASK87___ Alexandre Dumas (" père ") completed in 1844 . It is one of the ___MASK87___ ' s most popular works , along with " The Three Musketeers ." Like many of his novels , it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet . Auguste Maquet ( French : ( oyst mak ) ; 13 September 1813 , Paris -- 8 January 1888 ) was a French ___MASK87___ , best known as the chief collaborator of French novelist Alexandre Dumas , père , co - writing such works as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers .