Far better that he is the clear unadulterated source rather than behave as he and Meghan did with Finding Freedom, the version of their lives written by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, where they denied helping the authors in any way only to have to retract when, in a court case, their press secretary confessed that they had passed on their own “briefing points” and been given the opportunity to check facts.Īs a reporter, Moehringer will have seen that the most under-reported part of Harry’s life is his military service in Afghanistan, the experience that immersed him in the brutal realities of the killing fields and left him with a place in the army brotherhood that no other royal has ever earned. Harry has every right to tell his story, and to have it told well. What is more, the impact of this book will be formidable because Moehringer’s craft will lift it above the ghost’s usual device of giving a celebrity a fluency that they don’t have, while avoiding any real substance. He wouldn’t need to take his own axe to the Windsors, even if so inclined, which is unlikely, because Harry’s disaffections are already well aired. First of all, the diminishment of Harry’s agency, a frequent British trope tied to the idea “she made him do it.” And then, the idea of a ghost writer using his subject as a ventriloquist for his own views isn’t borne out by Moehringer’s track record. Lacey linked the influence of Moehringer with that of Meghan: “…two tough Americans imprinting their own radical thought patterns onto a malleable young Brit who uses their words to fight his family battles.”īut I don’t agree.
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That was already clear when Moehringer ghosted Andre Agassi’s autobiography, Open, a searing account of a life spent inside the talent grooming machine of professional tennis, published in 2009, in which, once more, he found a narrative voice that seemed authentic and deeply personal. This is a far higher level of writing craft than is usually called upon to produce a ghosted celebrity autobiography. Moehringer channels the dark history of Gee’s Bend through the voice of Mary Lee, creating a powerful montage of hope and tragedy that has the pacing of a documentary film. The story pivots on the impending arrival of a new ferry that will end that isolation. He tells the story of Mary Lee, a woman living in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, a Black community geographically isolated from white communities by a bend in a river. Moehringer won his Pulitzer for Crossing Over, a tour-de-force of literary journalism published in the Los Angeles Times Magazine in 2000. When Harry talks about the “genetic pain and suffering that gets passed on” he sounds to me more like Moehringer than Windsor.” It will derive its impact through the applied eye of Moehringer. Robert Lacey, himself a distinguished royal biographer, told me, “The power of Harry’s book will lie in the emotional experience-but not as lived through his eyes. Maybe you could just sort of postpone it indefinitely.Prince Harry’s Bombshell Memoir Reportedly Handed In, All Ready To Ruin The Royals’ Christmas Speaking to The Washington Post, Brown suggested, "I think the royal family should write a huge check and say, look, Harry, here's a check for your security.
Unless, of course, Harry decides to shelve it. "The one we're all waiting for (and that is certain to grab the media's attention the most) is Prince Harry's memoir!" she told the Daily Mail. But he will go after Charles and Camilla and maybe William," Brown told The Telegraph.Įxact contents aside, Helen Lewis, who is the founder and director of Literally PR, predicts the book will be a runaway success. "He probably won't go after Kate, whom he's very fond of. Given his close relationship with Queen Elizabeth II, royal author Tina Brown believes the queen will be treated kindly in Harry's memoir. The Duke of Sussex didn't have to get permission from the royals to write his story, however, Harry did talk to them about his plans, a spokesperson told People. The book's press release suggests it will chronicle Harry's private and public life, including his service in Afghanistan and experiences as a parent.
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