Jon Krakauer Biography

Biography of Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer was born in Massachusetts on April 12, 1954. When he was little he dreamed of climbing Mt. Everest like Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein. He went to Hampshire College in the early 1970s. He met David Roberts while in college and Roberts inspired Krakauer even more. Krakauer wanted to climb the unexplored peaks of Alaskan Arrigetch Peaks in 1974. The American Alpine Club heard he was going on this adventure, so they asked him to keep a journal. This was the first writing he had done. Three years later, he had his first article published in the British magazine Mountain. He made a decent amount of money for this article, so in 1983 he quit is carpentry job and started writing. He met Linda Moore in the late 1970s and they were then married in 1980. His first book was Eiger Dreams: Ventures among Men and Mountains. It was a collection of his magazine articles about his experience climbing Mount McKinley, the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. In 1922, Krakauer was asked to write about Christopher McCandless, which he did. This book became Into the Wild. He then wrote Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster. He also wrote High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman. Krakauer has been an editor for many writers as well.

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 This is a picture of Jon Krakauer on the cover of Outside. A magazine he continually wrote for.  

From: http://outsideonline.com/outside/features/literary-all-stars_12.htm