John M. Adams is author of THE MILLIONAIRE AND THE MUMMIES: THEODORE DAVIS’S GILDED AGE IN THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS (St. Martins Press, 2013). A native of Chicago, he is director emeritus of the Orange County Public Library and a former member of the Board of Governors of the American Research Center in Egypt. He edited the Egyptological newsletter “Sedjem” for five years and is a regular contributor to “Kmt: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt.”