Shelf Awareness recapped Tuesday’s appearance on the Today Show by Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson. Mortenson has remained out of the spotlight since a 2011 controversy regarding the misappropriation of funds generated by his work for the Central Asia Institute, the Bozeman centered nonprofit he established to build schools in underdeveloped communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Mortenson, along with co-author David Oliver Relin, was awarded a 2007 Pacific Northwest Book Award for Three Cups of Tea, which took the region, and the country, by storm.