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Prince Harry's 'Spare' ghostwriter defends book's mistakes as it breaks sales records

J.R. Moehringer attends the Los Angeles premiere of Amazon Studio's "The Tender Bar," at TCL Chinese Theatre on Dec. 12, 2021, in Hollywood, California.

J.R. Moehringer, the ghostwriter on Prince Harry's explosive tell-all "Spare", is defending factual errors and inconsistencies in the just-published memoir.

And he did it with a quote from another author.

In a Wednesday tweet, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Los Angeles Times writer seemed to address nit-picking criticisms of the book with a quote by "The Liars' Club" author Mary Karr, who wrote 2015's "The Art of Memoir."

"The line between memory and fact is blurry, between interpretation and fact," the quote card said. "There are

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