Prince Harry has chosen to transcribe his memories, a former American journalist and writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of the autobiography of Andre Agassi.
No one talks about him, and yet it is he who is hiding behind the sensational revelations of Prince Harry, which have been delighting the press since Thursday. To write his memoirs and recount his grievances against the royal family, the prince chose the pen of a certain JR Moehringer.
This 58-year-old American author is known for his autobiographical book, which became a bestseller, entitled The Tender Bar, recently adapted for the screen by George Clooney, starring Ben Affleck. According to Timesit is also George Clooney who would have presented the Sussexes to the author.
From Agassi to Prince Harry
It is also this autobiographical story that made Andre Agassi, the former tennis player, want to entrust his story to JR Moehringer. The writer thus helped him to make a book of it, entitled Open: An Autobiographypublished in 2009. The book also became a bestseller.
JR Moehringer’s work as a “ghost writer”, a penman, is hailed in the publishing world for its quality. More than a writer in the shadows, JR Moehringer is a real author, with a real style.
“That [la biographie d’Agassi] allowed people to realize that autobiographies of celebrities could be of another caliber”, thus notes an editor in an article of the Times. “It showed what a ‘ghost writer’ can do, and what happens when you add literary talent to the recipe.”
After writing about his father’s absence in The Tender Barand on the tyrannical father of Andre Agassi, the author explores in The Alternate the complex relationship between Prince Harry and his father Charles.
If Moehringer seems to have captured the psychology of Prince Harry, as he had done with Agassi, the writer lived a radically different childhood, at the antipodes of Buckingham. Son of a DJ, whose “true genius was to disappear”, he grew up in a modest environment, in the State of New York. Raised by his mother, JR Moehringer benefited from other father figures, such as his uncle – played by Ben Affleck in the film The Tender Barand colorful customers who frequented his bar.
Former journalist
Having become a journalist, after studying at the prestigious Yale University, JR Moehringer worked for the New York Times and for the Los Angeles Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000, for one of his articles about a community of descendants of slaves in Alabama, disrupted by a ferry project.
One of JR Moehringer’s articles on the story of a former boxer who became homeless has also been adapted for the cinema, under the title Rebirth of a championwith Josh Harnett and Samuel L. Jackson.
JR Moehringer also played “ghost writers” for American billionaire Phil Knight, whose autobiography he wrote, titled shoe dogpublished in 2015.
