Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter J.R. Moehringer Defends ‘Spare’ Book Amid Claims of Factual Errors
usmagazine.comAs Prince Harry sets sales records with his new memoir, Spare’s ghostwriter, J.R. Moehringer, is speaking out amid claims that the tell-all has factual errors.“The line between memory and fact is blurry, between interpretation and fact,” a quote shared by Moehringer via Twitter on Wednesday, January 11, reads. “These are inadvertent mistakes of those kinds out the wazoo.”The Tender Bar author included a link to Mary Karr’s The Art of Memoir, where he pulled the quote – and others — from. “Neurologist Jonathan Mink, MD, explained to me that such intense memoirs … we often record the emotion alone, all detail blurred into unreadable smear,” another passage from Karr shared by Moehringer reads.Moehringer also posted two quotes from Spare about memory attributed to Harry.“Landscape, geography, architecture, that’s how my memory rolls.
Dates? Sorry, I’ll need to look them up. Dialogue? I’ll try my best, but make no verbatim claims, especially when it comes to the 90s,” one passage reads.Another Harry quote states: “Whatever the cause, my memory is my memory, it does what it does, gathers and curates as it sees fit, and there’s just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts.
Things like chronology and cause-and-effect are often just fables we tell ourselves about the past.”The Duke of Sussex’s book made waves for several reasons — including details of Harry’s strained relationships with Prince William and King Charles III, stories about late mother Princess Diana and the former military pilot’s confessions about drugs and partying — ahead of its Tuesday, January 10, release.
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