What to Know About Harry’s ‘Spare’ Ghostwriter – CNET – ApparelGeek

Ghostwriters are often hired to help famous scribes tell their stories in revealing memoirs, and Prince Harry acclaimed enlisted author JR Moehringer to help with Spare.

Although few details of Moehringer and the Duke of Sussex’s writing process have been revealed – apart from a few reports that the mutual friend George Clooney gave an introduction – the 58-year-old Tender bar The author is a pro at ghostwriting and has been candid about telling the stories of individuals.

“Well, [Andre Agassi and I] do a lot of things together. And the first thing we did was start a long, wonderful conversation about his life. It worked like therapy,” Moehringer recalled to NPR in 2012 after working with the tennis champion on his 2009 memoir. I had a cushion 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 had amassed this huge — it was like 1,100 or 1,200 pages of transcript, so we dug through it together and found themes. There was nothing I imposed on his life from above. I mean, it was, it was really the purest type of collaboration, but what was clear to me was that he answered my [Tender Bar] book because it all started with a complex and difficult relationship with my father. It was something he was really able to identify with.

The former journalist mourned the death of his father in his autobiography The tender barwho Harry, 38, could probably relate to as he lost his mother, Princess Diana, when he was 12. (The late People’s Princess died in a car accident in August 1997 at the age of 36.)

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The Archewell co-founder detailed how he tried to come to terms with his death in Spare.

“We left, weaving through traffic, past the Ritz, where mom had her last meal, with her boyfriend [Dodi Al-Fayed], this August night. Then we came to the mouth of the tunnel,” Harry recalls in the memoir. to drive on the same path as his accident. “We raced ahead, we went over the ledge at the entrance to the tunnel, the bump that would have caused mum’s Mercedes to swerve. But the lip was nothing. We barely felt it. »

He added: “Just a straight tunnel. I had always imagined the tunnel as a treacherous, inherently dangerous passage, but it was just a short, simple, no-frills tunnel. No reason for anyone to die inside. … It was a very bad idea. I had had many bad ideas in my twenty-three years, but this one was particularly badly conceived.

Harry and Moehringer could also sympathize with the loss of their respective fathers. While the author grew up without his father, the military veteran has been candid about King Charles IIIabsence from his life following his royal resignation in 2020.

The Invictus Games co-founder also spoke about his royal upbringing, relationship with Her Majesty and Prince Williamhis marriage to Meghan Markle and mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth II in Spare.

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