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 …
Portland journalist and author David Oliver Relin, who won a 2007 Pacific Northwest Book Award as co-author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time, has died of suicide at 49. Relin wrote the book with mountain climber turned humanitarian Greg Mortenson, who would …
As soon as we heard about the 60 Minutes and Jon Krakauer exposés of Montana author Greg Mortenson, we knew we were not going to enjoy this. And we were right; we are not enjoying it. Mortenson and his co-author David Oliver Relin won an Award from the Northwest Booksellers in 2007 for Three Cups of Tea, …
