The problem with JR, Andre's book coach, is that he makes Writing Easy. We are dealing, let's not forget, with someone who had roughly the same formal education as Wayne Rooney or Gazza.Īgassi credits the dramatic, mid-90s revival in his fortunes to his new coach, Brad Gilbert, author of Winning Ugly. I agree, this does come as a disappointment, even if we accept that it's as unreasonable to expect Agassi to sit down and actually write a book as it is to expect Martin Amis (to whom we shall return) suddenly to make the Wimbledon finals. Um, who? He's Agassi's collaborator, the guy who turned hundreds of hours of taped conversations into plausible prose. If Andre Agassi's Open is anything to go by, great tennis players begin to have minds like JR Moehringer. He has also published a biography of Willie Sutton, the American bank robber, which also has a one-word title - Sutton.Īgassi’s autobiography received positive reviews from critics with the New York Times describing it as “an uncommonly well-written sports memoir”.N orman Mailer reckoned that, as big fights loomed, great boxers "begin to have inner lives like Hemingway or Dostoevsky, Tolstoy or Faulkner, Joyce or Melville".
In 1994 he became a reporter for the Orange County bureau of the Los Angeles Times. He began his journalism career as a news assistant at The New York Times.
In 2000 he won the Pulitzer Prize for newspaper feature writing for his article “Crossing Over”. The author of both books, John Moehringer, 57, best known by his pen name JR Moehringer, is an American novelist and journalist. The cover of Andre Agassi’s autobiography, Open, published in 2009 also features a front on head shot of the former world number one.īoth books were written by ghostwriter JR Moehringer and also share another noticeably similar feature their one word titles. The cover of Prince Harry’s memoir depicts him looking straight at the camera in an image captured by photographer Ramona Rosales. The Duke of Sussex’s long-awaited memoir titled Spare bears striking similarities to the autobiography of tennis star Andre Agassi, which was written by the same ghost writer.
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