Bruce Shutan

Book ghostwriter and journalist

Bruce Shutan is a versatile journalist who has written for more than 100 publications or corporate entities over nearly four decades. He also ghostwrites independently published business books and memoirs. He's also a contributing journalist to One World Initiative, a public broadcasting organization with a global audience. His extensive reporting on the American workplace dates back to 1985, with a showbiz sideline developed in 2000 when he began contributing to Variety – a must-read for entertainment industry insiders for more than a century.

In 2012, he ghostwrote “How I Discovered Tikkun Olam Through Philanthropy,” the memoirs of Canadian chartered accountant and Jewish philanthropist Leonard Cordes. Nearly a decade later, he ghostwrote his first business book, "Growing Ivy: How to Crack the Code on Elite College Admissions," for John Morganelli Jr. one of the only independent admissions consultants in the United States who has been an undergraduate Ivy League admissions director. It was a natural career move for Shutan, who became fascinated with life stories as a child while watching the original “Biography” TV series in the 1960s narrated by Mike Wallace. This discovery fueled his passion for journalism as well as the written word. When Shutan told Fox News anchor Chris Wallace at a 2015 conference in Washington, D.C., that his father inspired him to become a journalist, his immediate response with a wry smile was "me, too."