When Prince Harry’s highly-anticipated memoir, Spare, came out in January, news about it was everywhere. The book is 2023’s biggest-selling non-fiction title to date, with over 1 million copies sold in the U.S. alone. Readers wanted it for the bombshell revelations, insights and scandals. Some, though, also wished to read it because of its ghostwriter, J.R. Moehringer — the person who actually wrote the book for Prince Harry.
Moehringer, 58, a Pulitzer-winning journalist and author, is ghostwriter for not just Prince Harry’s book but also tennis legend Andre Agassi’s acclaimed autobiography, Open, as well as Nike co-founder Phil Knight’s memoir, Shoe Dog. In fact, he’s “so famous that George Clooney made a film of his life”, says the headline of a news article in The Guardian. The movie is based on Moehringer’s own memoir, The Tender Bar (2005), and stars Ben Affleck.
