What is Becoming (book)?
{{Infobox book | name = Becoming | image = | caption = | author = [[Michelle Obama]] | country = United States | language = English | series = | release_number = | subject = | genre = Memoir | set_in = | publisher = [[Crown Publishing Group|Crown]] (North America)<br>[[Viking Press]] (Commonwealth) | pub_date = | english_pub_date = | published = {{Start date|2018|11|13|mf=yes}} | media_type = | pages = 400 | awards = | isbn = 978-1-5247-6313-8 | isbn_note = (Hardcover) | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = American Grown | followed_by = | notes = | exclude_cover = }} '''''Becoming''''' is a [[memoir]] written by former First Lady [[Michelle Obama]]. The book was written by a [[ghostwriter]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Glenn Thrush |last2=Elaina Plott |title=How the Trump Campaign Is Drawing Obama Out of Retirement |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/us/politics/obama-biden-trump.html |access-date=10 July 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 June 2020 |language=en |quote=“She had a ghostwriter,” Mr. Obama told a friend who asked about his wife’s speedy work}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE |title=Waiting for Obama |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/obama-2020-election/590056/ |access-date=24 May 2019 |work=[[The Atlantic]] |date=23 May 2019 |language=en |quote=he’ll occasionally point out in conversation that he’s writing this book himself, while Michelle used a ghostwriter}}</ref> and a team of people who helped finish the book.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Holmes|first=Helen|date=September 17, 2020|title=Did Obama Use a Ghostwriter to Finish His New Memoir, 'A Promised Land'?|url=https://observer.com/2020/09/barack-obama-a-promised-land-memoir-ghostwriter/|access-date=November 18, 2020|website=Observer|language=en-US|quote=In the acknowledgements of Becoming, it does indeed state that a team of people had a hand in finishing the book}}</ref> It was published in November 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2018/11/michelle-obama-becoming-memoir-first-la