Prince Harry is producing a memoir – but is he writing it?

As A-listers and big-name authors alike turn to ghostwriters, who deserves the bestseller credit?

Prince Harry announced this week that he is writing a memoir “not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become”. But the person drafting every certain-to-be-scrutinised word about the United Kingdom royal’s life is actually Pulitzer Prize-winner JR Moehringer, who helped pen Open, tennis champion Andre Agassi’s provocative memoir, in 2009. Moehringer is the second high-profile ghostwriter to make headlines recently. Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger’s former ghostwriter, Barry Coleman, recently opened up to The Guardian about the “awful” experience of trying to collaborate with the rock-and-roll legend on his memoir in the early 1980s. The autobiography was never published and remains one of the most sought-after stories to this day.