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 one JR Moehringer.
This 58-year-old American author is known for his best-selling autobiographical book entitled the tender bar, recently adapted to the screen by George Clooney, starring Ben Affleck. According to Timesit is also George Clooney who would have introduced 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 about it, entitled Open: An Autobiographypublished in 2009. The book also became a bestseller.
JR Moehringer’s work as a “ghostwriter”, a writer, 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] made people realize that celebrity autobiographies could be of a different caliber,” notes an editor in an article in the Times. “It showed what a ‘ghostwriter’ can do and what happens when you add literary talent to the recipe.”
After writing about his father’s absence in the tender barand about the tyrannical father of Andre Agassi, the author explores in alternate the complex relationship between Prince Harry and his father Charles.
If Moehringer seems to have grasped the psychology of Prince Harry, as he had done with Agassi, the writer lived a radically different childhood, in the antipodes of Buckingham. The son of a DJ whose “real genius was disappearing,” he grew up in a modest environment in upstate 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 him 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 was left homeless has also been adapted to the cinema, under the title rebirth of a championwith Josh Harnett and Samuel L. Jackson.
JR Moehringer also played “ghostwriters” for American billionaire Phil Knight, whose autobiography he wrote, titled shoe dogpublished in 2015.
Source: BFM TV
