Back to work. Prince William made his first solo appearance since the release of Prince Harry‘s Spare memoir and his subsequent press tour.
06.01.2023 - 03:37 / 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. That was something that he was really able to relate to.”
The former journalist mourned the death of his father in his autobiographical The Tender Bar, which Harry, 38, could likely relate to as he lost mother Princess Diana at the age of 12. (The late People’s Princess died in an August 1997 car crash at the age of 36.)
The Archewell cofounder detailed how he attempted to cope with her death in Spare.
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Back to work. Prince William made his first solo appearance since the release of Prince Harry‘s Spare memoir and his subsequent press tour.
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