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Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling non-fiction books—Into the Wild; Into Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman—as well as numerous magazine articles.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster is a 1997 bestselling nonfiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It details Krakauer's experience in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster , in which eight climbers were killed and several others were stranded by a storm.
The official site of Jon Krakauer, author of Where Men Win Glory, Under the Banner of Heaven, Into the Wild, and Into Thin Air.
Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It is an expansion of a 9,000-word article by Krakauer on Chris McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside. The book was adapted to a film of the same name in 2007, directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless.
Jon Krakauer is the author of eight books and has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Jon Krakauer has 45 books on Goodreads with 3504953 ratings. Jon Krakauer’s most popular book is Into the Wild.
Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer, well-known for outdoor and mountain-climbing writing. https://www.facebook.com/jonkrakauer. ...more. Combine Editions. Jon Krakauer’s books. Average rating: 4.07 · 1,977,598 ratings · 77,230 reviews · 46 distinct works • Similar authors. More books by Jon Krakauer…
Jan 13, 1996 · Krakauer’s page-turning bestseller explores a famed missing person mystery while unraveling the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination; the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cast of mind; the complex, charged bond between fathers and sons.
Nov 11, 2014 · Jon Krakauer's 1996 book Into the Wild delved into the riveting story of Chris McCandless, a 24-year-old man from an affluent family outside Washington, D.C., who graduated...
Oct 19, 1999 · A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down."
