Tim Vandehey

TIM VANDEHEY is a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter and co-author who’s written more than 70 nonfiction books, won multiple Axiom, Independent Press and Goody Awards, and published with such major houses as HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Hay House, Wiley & Sons, and MIT Press. Tim specializes in genres such as memoir, business, prescriptive self-help, and cultural commentary, but has ghosted successful books on subjects as diverse and challenging as cybercrime, the Internet of Things, ultra-endurance racing, brain trauma in professional football, and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

Tim’s notable recent titles include I Identify As Blind: A Brazen Celebration of Disability Identity, Culture and Power by Lachi (Penguin Random House, January 2026); What Is Owed: The Case for Reparations to Redeem a Nation, by Damario Solomon-Simmons (Penguin Random House, February 2026; Saturday Night, Sunday Morning: Staying True to Myself from the Pews to the Stage by P.J. Morton (Hachette, November 2024); and Undefeated: Changing the Rules and Winning on My Own Terms by Shaunie Henderson (Simon & Schuster, May 2024). In his long career, he has ghosted for Hollywood producers, Pentecostal bishops, Emmy-winning actors, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, NFL veterans, reality stars, naturalists, Ironman champions, computer geniuses, and famous musicians, to name a few.