This week Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, revealed that his wife Blythe helps him write his bestsellers. It puts him in good company, writes Hadley Freeman

This article is very little about Blythe, but it has many fascinating examples of other spouses (both male and female) over the years, who helped, and sometimes wrote, the work that brought attention to the more famous member of the couple.

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