Jon Krakauer

Author of Into the Wild

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Jon Krakauer was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on April 12, 1954. He received a degree in environmental studies from Hampshire College in Massachusetts in 1976. He worked as a carpenter, fisherman, and writer. He articles on mountain climbing appeared in several publications including GQ, National Geographic, Architectural Digest, Playboy, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone. In 1996, he climbed Mt. Everest, but a storm took the lives of four of the five teammates who reached the summit with him. An analysis of the calamity he wrote for Outside magazine received a National Magazine Award. An article he wrote for Smithsonian about volcanology received the 1997 Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism. He is the author of several books including Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster; Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith; Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman; Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way; and Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town. His book, Into the Wild, was made into a movie in 2007. He is also the editor of the Modern Library Exploration series. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Into the Wild… (more)

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Works by Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild 17,006 copies, 431 reviews

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster 13,593 copies, 306 reviews

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith 8,454 copies, 208 reviews

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman 1,838 copies, 72 reviews

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town 1,344 copies, 74 reviews

Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains 1,271 copies, 21 reviews

Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way 456 copies, 34 reviews

Into the Wild [2007 film] (Author) 203 copies, 2 reviews

Iceland: Land of the Sagas (Photographer) 176 copies

Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and Risk 108 copies, 2 reviews

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster {abridged… (Author & Reader) 94 copies, 2 reviews

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (A Vintage Short) 6 copies

Under the Banner of Heaven {abridged audio} 4 copies

In die Wildnis . Mord im Auftrag Gottes: Zwei Bestseller in einem Band 4 copies

Sem Deixar Rasto 3 copies

Obedeceré a Dios: El crimen que puso la fe a prueba 2 copies, 1 review

Rêves de montagnes 2 copies

Krakauer esencial: Reflexiones sobre el riesgo y la condición humana… 2 copies

How Chris McCandless Died: An Update 2 copies

Improve Your Energy: Dealing with problems 2 copies

Outside, September 2006 Issue 1 copy

Outside, September 1996 (Into Thin Air) 1 copy

Rocky Times for Banff 1 copy

Geologists worry about dangers of living 'under the volcano' 1 copy

High and Hallowed 1 copy

Looking for new challenges, hard-core climbers turn to ice 1 copy

A new vision for a museum on the Mall 1 copy

Loving Them to Death 1 copy

Eiger wysniony 1 copy

Tìm trong hoang dã 1 copy

Sueǫs del Eiger : aventuras entre los hombres y las montaąs 1 copy

A l'extrême 1 copy

Estremi. Dall'Everest al Pacifico: avventure di uomini straordinari 1 copy

Everest Günlügü 1 copy

Death of an Innocent: How Christopher McCandless Lost His Way in the Wilds 1 copy

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Also by Jon Krakauer

The Best American Essays of the Century (Contributor) 736 copies, 4 reviews

High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Foreword, some editions) 456 copies, 12 reviews

In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian… (Preface, some editions) 410 copies, 7 reviews

Farthest North (Introduction, some editions) 395 copies, 11 reviews

The Wild Truth (Foreword) 349 copies, 14 reviews

Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the… (Preface) 312 copies, 32 reviews

Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary… (Foreword) 198 copies, 11 reviews

The Best American Sports Writing of the Century (Contributor) 187 copies, 1 review

Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks (Contributor) 166 copies, 3 reviews

High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (Adrenaline) (Contributor) 102 copies, 2 reviews

The mountain of my fear {and} Deborah : a wilderness narrative (Foreword, some editions) 63 copies, 1 review

Forget Me Not: A Memoir (Foreword) 48 copies, 1 review

Where the Silence Rings: A Literary Companion to Mountains (Contributor) 12 copies

Playboy Magazine ~ October 1994 (Jennifer Lavoie) (Contributor) 3 copies

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