PENN GAZETTE ALUMNI NOTES SEPTEMBER 2024
2004
Richard Carreño GEd’04, an art critic and former lecturer of American literature and English composition at several universities, is the author of a new book about the life and death of Penn Museum archaeologist George H. McFadden III. According to the press materials, The Inventive Life of George H. McFadden: Archaeologist, Poet, Scholar, Spy “explores how a scion of one of the twentieth century’s richest and most prominent American families, uniquely lived his life, while it also questions how he might have died.” In 1953, McFadden “died suddenly in a sailing mishap off the coast of Cyprus. Twelve days later, his body washed up on the Mediterranean shore after a journey of one hundred kilometers. When his remains were discovered, there were abrasion marks around McFadden’s wrists, and questions about both his life and death have lingered.”