BOSTON — Best-selling author and philanthropist Greg Mortenson has been hospitalized for heart surgery and canceled a scheduled appearance in Massachusetts.
Mortenson, co-author of “Three Cups of Tea,” has been the subject of media allegations of financial mismanagement and literary fraud.
Officials with the Massachusetts Conference United Church of Christ, a group sponsoring the May 3 event, say they were told that Mortenson was having surgery in Bozeman, Mont., to repair a hole in his heart and couldn’t make the Worcester speech.
“60 Minutes” and author Jon Krakauer claimed that Mortenson lied about events in several parts of his book and may have financially benefited from money donated to his charity to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Associated Press
