Pop Stars Turned Authors

Want to publish a book? Consider recording a hit album first. Then start shopping around for ghostwriters. Here's a few of the more notorious examples of pop stars with their own ISBN numbers.

Billy Corgan, Blinking With Fists - Foolishly thinking that any words could stir the soul more deeply than "In spite of my rage /I am still just a rat in a cage," Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan released his first collection of poetry in 2004. Reviews were mixed, but Corgan arguably thinks more of it than his output with Zwan.
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