Jon Krakauer
Nato: April 12, 1954 – Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Jon Krakauer is an American nonfiction writer and mountaineer known for immersive reporting on wilderness, survival, disaster, and social controversy. His notable books include Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven. A longtime bestselling author, he has shaped modern narrative nonfiction through meticulous, high-stakes storytelling.
Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore
Jon Krakauer, born on April 12, 1954, in Brookline, Massachusetts, and raised in Corvallis, Oregon, came to writing through mountains rather than through a conventional newsroom path. Introduced early to climbing and wilderness travel, he studied environmental studies at Hampshire College, graduating in 1976. After college he worked as a carpenter and commercial salmon fisherman in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Colorado, shaping his life around time in the mountains. A decisive turn came after his attempt on Alaska’s Devils Thumb and the article he wrote about it for the British climbing magazine Mountain; the payment and response helped persuade him that freelance reporting could become a profession. By the early 1980s he was making a living as a writer and became closely associated with Outside, while also publishing in National Geographic, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jon-Krakauer?utm_source=openai))
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Into the wild
Jon Krakauer
True story of a young man's journey into the wilderness
Into Thin Air Flr
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Epic Everest disaster exposes the brutal cost of commercialized adventure
Under the Banner of Heaven
Jon Krakauer
A chilling exploration of religious extremism, violence, and the dark side of faith in Mormon fundamentalism.
Into the wild
Jon Krakauer
True story of a young man's journey into the wilderness
Into Thin Air Flr
Jon Krakauer
Epic Everest disaster exposes the brutal cost of commercialized adventure
Under the Banner of Heaven
Jon Krakauer
A chilling exploration of religious extremism, violence, and the dark side of faith in Mormon fundamentalism.
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"Krakauer is a masterly writer and reporter"
— The New York Times Book Review ((
"Jon Krakauer is at his provocative best"
— The New Orleans Times-Picayune ((
"Krakauer’s account of good intentions gone horribly wrong is a stunning example of investigative journalism"
— Publishers Weekly ((
"Krakauer doesn’t just tell the story of these crimes"
— The Boston Globe ((
"Krakauer is an extremely gifted storyteller as well as a relentlessly honest and even-handed journalist"
— Elle ((
"Krakauer is an adept chronicler of extremists and the tour guide of choice for secular quests"
— Los Angeles Times Book Review ((
"Krakauer is a writer committed above all else to asking difficult questions"
— Los Angeles Times ((
"Jon Krakauer began his career as an author of taut, finely reported outdoor adventures; seven books later, he emerges as the conscience of a nation"
— The Christian Science Monitor ((
"Krakauer combines the tenacity and courage of investigative journalism with the stylish subtlety and profound insight of the born writer"
— American Academy of Arts and Letters ((
"Krakauer’s reporting is steady but ferocious"
— Mirabella ((
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