This post was a bit of a shocker for me: 5 Famous People You Won’t Believe Didn’t Exist (Cracked.com)
Sun Zhu was probably the biggest shocker right up front. I had heard that Carolyn Keene (of Nancy Drew fame) was a ghostwriting conglomerate, but I had forgotten until reading this article. The story of Mavis Beacon and the company’s competitors made me crack up too:
Explorer Leslie 