Jon Krakauer
American writer and mountaineer
Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer who wrote Into the Wild and Under the Banner of Heaven.
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American Born 1954 in Brookline, United States
About Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer was born on April 12, 1954, in Brookline, Massachusetts. His first book, Into the Wild, grew out of a magazine article he wrote for Outside. The book stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for two years and was adapted into a film directed by Sean Penn. He took part in a 1996 Mount Everest expedition that ended in disaster, and he wrote about it in Into Thin Air. His other books include Under the Banner of Heaven and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman. In 1999 he received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.