I was acutely conscious of that throughout my time at Yale. And so I had a lot of rough edges as I arrived. And my mother, I remember, canceled her subscription to People magazine so that she could send me that money. Remembering Yale, he told NPR, 'My mother and I had nothing, and I arrived as a scholarship student.

In 2000, he received the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing, 'for his portrait of Gee’s Bend, an isolated river community in Alabama where many descendants of slaves live, and how a proposed ferry to the mainland might change it.' ( You can read his Pulitzer Prize winning story here.)

After, he went to work at Rocky Mountain News in Colorado and then the Los Angeles Times. Moehringer is an accomplished journalist.Īfter graduating from Yale University in 1986, he started working at the New York Times. Here's everything you need to know about Prince Harry's ghostwriter, J.R. Moehringer, who spoke to me so often and with such deep conviction about the beauty (and sacred obligation) of Memoir.' In the acknowledgements for Spare, Harry thanks him, writing, 'Thanks to my collaborator and friend, confessor and sometime sparring partner, J. It’s highly specialized work that requires a blend of skills industry sources say the best collaborators are equal parts editor, reporter, writer, mimic, and shrink.' But those in the industry know that Moehringer, one of the highest-profile ghostwriters working, will be an essential component in the royal’s book-even if his name never appears on the final product.'ĭeahl continues, 'For as long as celebrities have been writing books, others have quietly helped them do it. Moehringer, was nowhere to be found among the details the publisher released. ' The man channeling the Duke of Sussex’s voice for the book, J.R. 'When Penguin Random House announced in July that it would be publishing a memoir by Prince Harry, there was one name that was, conspicuously and appropriately, left off the press release,' Rachel Deahl wrote in Publisher's Weeklyin November 2021. So Sparewas written with the help of J.R. For famous authors like Prince Harry, enlisting a ghostwriter is a no-brainer.

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