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Laurence Shames

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Laurence Shames

Ghostwriter of Bad Twin

Name	Laurence Shames
Date of Birth	1952
Place of Birth	Newark, New Jersey
Date of Death	Living
Place of Death	Living
Occupation	Columnist, essayist, ghostwriter/novelist
Country of Origin	American
Genre	?
Subject	N/A
Magnum Opus	Boss of Bosses
Influences	?
Influenced	?
Official Website	?
Misc. Info	N/A
IMDB	IMDb profile

Laurence Shames was revealed as the "ghostwriter" for the metafictional Lost tie-in book Bad Twin.

Shames is formerly the Ethics columnist for Esquire, is a critically acclaimed novelist and essayist and was the ghostwriter of the New York Times best-seller Boss of Bosses. His role as ghostwriter for Bad Twin was revealed by Daily Variety.[1] He lives in Ojai, California.

Trivia

Clancy Brown (Kelvin Inman) plays "Andris Kurins" in the made for TV movie co-written by Shames "Boss of Bosses".
In the Official Lost Podcast, Damon Lindelof states that after reading "Bad Twin", Gary Troup got what was coming to him. The comment was most likely a dig at Laurence Shames.