Who Is J.R. Moehringer? 5 Things to Know About Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’ Memoir Ghostwriter

usmagazine.com:

Ghostwriters are often hired to help celebrity scribes tell their stories in tell-all memoirs, and Prince Harry enlisted acclaimed author J.R.

Moehringer to help with Spare.While few details about Moehringer and the Duke of Sussex’s writing process have been revealed — save for a few reports that mutual pal George Clooney made an introduction — the 58-year-old Tender Bar author is a ghostwriting pro and has been outspoken about telling individuals’ stories.“Well, [Andre Agassi and I] did a lot of things together.

And the first thing that we did was we started a long really wonderful conversation about his life. It worked like therapy,” Moehringer recalled to NPR in 2012 of working with the tennis champ on his 2009 memoir. “I sat in a straight back chair and Andre sat on a couch and I had a pad in my lap and he really, he dug deep, and together we found patterns and themes in his life.”He continued at the time: “But, once we’d amassed this enormous — it was like 1,100 or 1,200 pages of transcript, then we dug through it together and we found themes.

There was nothing that I imposed on his life from above. I mean, it was, this really was the purest kind of collaboration, but what seemed plain to me was that he’d responded to my [Tender Bar] book because it all started with a complex, difficult relationship with my father.