Who Owns a Novel a Ghost Claims to Have Ghostwritten?
2 July - 1 hour 8 minsIn 1917, a dead Mark Twain "wrote" a novel through a Ouija board — and the lawsuit that followed forced everyone to ask who really owns a book authored from the afterlife.
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