William Novak

William Novak is an author who has co-written or ghostwritten numerous celebrity memoirs for people including Lee Iacocca, Nancy Reagan, and Magic Johnson. He is also the editor, with Moshe Waldoks, of The Big Book of Jewish Humor. He has also written several "private" books, which he described in a 2015 essay for The New York Times. (Wikipedia)

Novak began his career editing Jewish publications in the Boston area, where he and his wife also founded a Jewish matchmaking service.

Sources

• Ancestry.com. Biography & Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.
• Getlin, Josh. "Ghost to the Stars: William Novak Is the Invisible Writer Behind Memoirs by Lee Iaccoca, Nancy Reagan and -- Soon -- Magic Johnson." Los Angeles Times, published 17 September 1992. < https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-17-vw-968-story.html > Accessed 11 May 2019.
• "William Novak." Wikipedia, revision of 17 March 2019. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Novak > Accessed 10 May 2019.