Author Biography - Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer was born April 12, 1954. He was born in Brooklyn, Massachusetts. He is both a writer and a mountaineer. He wrote many nonfiction books, including Into the Wild and his better known book Into thin Air. Into the Wild, the book I am currently reading, was written off of the journal of Christopher McCandless, who traveled across America by walking and hitchhiking. Krakauer compares Christopher's experiences in Alaska to his own that he had in Alaska. Krakauer seems like an adrenaline junky to me because of his wild, risky mountaineering adventures.

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