He would buy a big check, no less than a million dollars, to serve as a pen holder for the renegade Windsor. Portrait of a writer from the shadows who knew how to wear the words of Prince Harry.
Los Angeles, summer 2021. We can imagine the scene very well. perched on a soft and plush armchair in premium linen (not marked Ikea, as in Nottingham Cottage), Harry tells his story, a lifetime in second place. Is it a spare part (emergency rucksack?) The doors to his office at his villa in Montecito are closed, and we can make out Archie’s laughter in the distance. In his face, via the Zoom app, JR Moehringer, his pen holder. He takes notes in a notebook like a notebook. Or rather, his Macbook Air.
In the video, “Silence is treason,” says Prince Harry in one of the interviews
Friend of the Clooneys
A few years ago, a completely different patient, famous and damaged, also revealed his most intimate secrets to this Pulitzer Prize-winning American. His name is Andre Agassi. JR Moehringer’s 250 hours on the couch will (re)immerse the tennis court legend in his family history, his wins, losses, low shots, meth use… But in Harry’s case, the unloading; d another magnitude. It has been more than a year since the heir to the throne of England was exiled to California with Meghan Markle. Away from the murderous headlines of the British tabloids, away from the Buckingham Palace, away from the shadow of his elder William. Now he wants to talk. Make your voice heard after years of silence, defending the Crown and cashing in.
It’s Penguin Random House publishing that will hit the jackpot in 2021 by buying the once-adored Prince’s Speech by the English. A £36.8m (€41.54m) deal for the trilogy, in which Harry will restart his life. Because you don’t improvise yourself as an author overnight, his friend George Clooney introduced him to the genius JR. With Muringer (real name John Joseph Muringer), whose bestseller and autobiography he adapted for film. The Tender Bar: The story of an orphan boy who spends his time in a bar run by his uncle Charlie, a madman (played by Ben Affleck) who turns out to be the only father around him and teaches him to “man up”.
The candidate has everything to please Harry. Like him, he had a chaotic relationship with his father. She, like him, had setbacks with alcohol… And like him, she remained impoverished from her youth. But there are things that make them completely different. Harry grew up in an ivory tower, between the walls of many private palaces and boarding schools; JR Moehringer, in a poor house in suburban New York, then in Arizona. Either way, the deal is done. The flashbacks can begin, the Windsors just have to watch out.
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Pulitzer 2000
However, nothing was predetermined when you know that JR Moehringer’s path is strewn with pitfalls. Born in New York City on December 7, 1964, the American first grew up in Manhasset, the Long Island suburb where most of the novel takes place. The Great Gatsby. From a modest family, he lives in cramped accommodation with his grandparents and his mother, Dorothy, who raises him alone after her divorce from Johnny Michael, a violent DJ who tried to suffocate Dorothy with a pillow when JR was a baby. To clear his mind, he’s used to frequenting Publicans Bar, where he enjoys the company of several bottle-focused regulars.
As a teenager, he moved several thousand kilometers away to Scottsdale, Arizona, and managed to integrate into the prestigious Yale University in Connecticut, graduating in 1986. After which he started working in journalism. It starts New York Times before joining Rocky Mountain NewsColorado’s first newspaper, then Los Angeles Times where it covers the Orange County area. It is on the pages of the California media that he signs a brilliant report that will win him the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. the river separates the black descendants of slaves and the white descendants of slave owners.
A sad story
Five years later he published The Tender Bar:. This gripping story, inspired by his own story, caught the attention of Andre Agassi, who devoured the bestseller at the 2006 US Open. The tennis player then asked JR Moehringer to write his memoirs. The request was accepted by the author. And he did well. Autobiography of an athlete open, which came out in 2009 to critical acclaim and became a bestseller. In it, the champion admits that he was given “crystal meth” in 1997, admits that he always hated playing tennis, looks back on his complicated relationship with his authoritarian and domineering father… In short, he says it all. Even today, the work is considered to be of high quality. “[Moehringer] really elevated the art ghost writing because he is not only a great journalist, but also a great writer,” said Buzz Bissinger, co-author of Caitlyn Jenner’s memoirs. “She’s the best, she writes beautifully, and she’s the author everyone dreams of.”
To write it, JR Moehringer even went so far as to travel to Las Vegas, where he interviewed Andre Agassi for hours. “It worked as therapy,” he admits a posteriori the writer
“Book of Life”
Since then, the American woman, married to editor Shannon Welch and the father of two children, has worked. shoe dog, the memoir of Nike founder Phil Knight. However, everyone agrees. Spare (The alternative, French) is a completely different challenge, the “book of life” in a whisper. It took no less than 50 Zoom interviews to gain Harry’s exceptional credibility: 25 people he killed in Afghanistan, cocaine as a teenager, losing his virginity in a field at 17, wearing a Nazi outfit in 2005… And still the same subject. , which charms J. R. To the Mooringer (and the rest of the world), particularly the complicated relationship between the prince and his family. source of DailyMail: says. “JR is meticulous. He is charming and easy-going, with an innate sense of history. He spent his life writing about broken men. Take the lost souls from the royal family and you have the recipe for the next bestseller. according to Penguin Random House, which publishes Harry, sales Spare The English edition surpassed 1.4 million copies on its first day. A book of life, then.
In the video, the trailer of Prince Harry’s interview with ITV
Source: Le Figaro
