David Oliver Relin (1962–2012)
Auteur de Trois tasses de thé. La mission de paix d'un Américain au Pakistan et en Afghanistan
A propos de l'auteur
David Oliver Relin was born in Rochester, New York on December 12, 1962. He graduated from Vassar College in 1985, and was later awarded a fellowship at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In the 1990s, he established himself as a journalist with an interest in telling stories about people in need afficher plus including articles about child soldiers and about his travels in Vietnam. He was the co-author of Three Cups of Tea with Greg Mortenson, which was published in 2006. In 2011, basic facts in the book were questioned by author Jon Krakauer and the CBS News program 60 Minutes. 60 Minutes also discovered that Mortenson's charity was spending large amounts of money on Mortenson's personal expenses and to promote the book. This caused Relin to suffer both emotionally and financially. He did not speak publicly about the charges, but he hired a lawyer to defend himself in a federal lawsuit that accused the authors and the publisher of defrauding readers. The suit was dismissed in 2012. He suffered from depression and committed suicide on November 15, 2012 at the age of 49. His book Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives was published in 2013 after his death. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de David Oliver Relin
Trois tasses de thé. La mission de paix d'un Américain au Pakistan et en Afghanistan (2006) 12,982 exemplaires
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time (Young Reader's Edition) (2009) 1,355 exemplaires
Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives (2013) 143 exemplaires
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- Nom canonique
- Relin, David Oliver
- Nom légal
- Relin, David Oliver
- Autres noms
- Rellin, Deibidŭ Olibŏ
- Date de naissance
- 1962-12-12
- Date de décès
- 2012-11-15
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Rochester, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Hue, Vietnam
USA - Études
- Vassar College (1985)
- Professions
- journalist
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 14,480
- Popularité
- #1,584
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 576
- ISBN
- 84
- Langues
- 16