Richard Carreño resides in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA........... a writer, bookseller, and an educator, formerly a
lecturer of American literature and English composition at
several universities in the United Kingdom and in the United States. He
is editor of The Philadelphia Junto and a
partner in the on-line bookshop, @philabooks|booksellers and WritersClearinghousePress.
He specializes in art, architectural, and cultural reporting and criticism.  He
is the author of several books, including Museum Mile: Philadelphia's
Parkway Museums, Lord
of Hosts: The Life of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon, and Clotheshorse:
A History and Guide to Riding Apparel. In 1996, Carreño was a visiting scholar at Cambridge
University and, in 1998, an educational consultant to the U.S. Agency
for International Development (A.I.D.) in Ukraine. Carreño was based in
the late 1990s in London, working as a media consultant, writer, and editor for
Writers Clearinghouse, a firm he founded in 1978 in Fabyan, CT. He travelled
widely in Europe and the Mid-East. Returning to the United States in 1999,
he held a short-term, mid-career assignment as a James H. Ottaway Sr. Fellow at
the American Press Institute, Washington. He is the recipient of an honors citation from the
Lowell Mellett Fund for a Free and Responsible Press, Washington, for his work
as a media critic; a first place award from the New England Scholastic Press
Association; and a Friends of The Bahamas Essay Award, among others.
In 1999, Carreño founded @philabooks|booksellers in
partnership with late father, Ralph J. Carreño of Boston. The on-line bookshop
specializes in books about The New Yorker and its authors; men's
fashions; works by and about the Pennsylvania author John O'Hara; and
books by and about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. @philabooks also
sponsors The Philadelphia Book ConneXion, a charity that distributes free
books.  Carreño was a reporter and editor for many years in the
1970s and 1980s for numerous newspapers, includingThe Boston Globe; The
Hartford Courant; the Telegram & Gazette, Worcester, Massachusetts; and The
News, Southbridge, Massachusetts, where he served as the first news critic and reader
ombudsmen in New England. His free-lance writing has appeared in scores of
regional and national publications in the U.S. and in the U.K. His work now appears regularly in the Philadelphia Weekly
Press. He also edits The Philadelphia Junto, an on-line blog.
Among his teaching posts were adjunct positions at Johnson
& Wales University, Providence, Rhode Island; the Harvard University Extension
School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Clark University and Assumption College, both in
Worcester, Massachusetts; and at the Choate-Rosemary Hall School, Wallingford, Connecticut. In
2004, he was an ESL specialist in Spain.
For many years, Carreño operated a family-owned boarding
stable in Connecticut. He is an amateur horsemen,
previously participating in foxhunting in Massachusetts and polo
in Florida and Massachusetts. His interest in equestrianism extends
to book collecting in that area and it being specialty designation of @philabooks. He has amassed a 5,000-title personal library,
including a comprehensive collection of works by and about John O'Hara.
Before moving to the U.K., Carreño served as an elected and
appointed official to several library panels, including the Connecticut
Association of Library Directors; the Connecticut Governor's Conference on
Libraries; and the Thompson, CT, Library Board of Directors. He is a
member of Pen & Pencil Club, Philadelphia; the Cambridge University
Society; and the Mid-Century Society, Philadelphia and London. Carreño was educated at New York University, where he was a
Regent Scholar and studied under the noted historians North Callahan and John
Tebbel. He obtained undergraduate degrees from the American University, Paris,
France; and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This was followed by
graduate work at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. Carreño has also worked and lived in France and
Switzerland. His childhood home was in Nassau, The Bahamas, where is mother,
Marion Berman Carreño, is buried. Carreño is a former resident of Worcester, Massachusetts, and Thompson, Connecticut..... When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer? First time I read The New Yorker as a kid. What is your genre and writing style? Advocacy first-person journalism. Informal. Where do you like to write? In my office. How do you maintain ideas and thoughts for manuscripts? Files, Notebooks. In your opinion, what makes a great writer? Non-fiction: Kick-Ass Cheeky Honesty Fiction: Universal
Timeless Theme. What suggestions do you have for first time writers? Write, proofread, cut, edit, write and do it again an
again. Do you have a favorite author/poet? Author: John O'Hara What are you currently working on? A biography of Paul Mellon. Where do you see yourself in five years? Whoa! One day at a time, please Follow Richard  |
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