Jon Krakauer Biography

Jon Krakauer was born in Massachusetts in the year 1954. Shortly after his birth, he and his family moved to Oregon where Jon would spend his childhood years. Krakauer loves the outdoors and has a love for nature. All of the books Krakauer has written had to do with the wilderness and nature that impacts the main character. Jon had a passion for writing about nature since the outdoors is his favorite interest. Jon also loved to climb the mountains of the Northwest. His love for climbing was influenced by a man named Willi Unsoeld, who was also a climber himself. Jon's first real climb was up a volcano in the Cascade Range, where he was accompanied by his father and his childhood hero, Willi Unsoeld. Early in Jon's adult years, he spent time climbing challenging rises and ascents but also trying jobs like housing and fishing. But after writing a magazine article in 1974 about his climb in Alaska, Jon started to write for his career. First, Jon started writing magazine articles, but then he made the move to books. In the 1990s. Jon wrote books such as Into the Wild and a magazine article for the Outside magazine called Iceland, which contained pictures of his exploration in Iceland. Krakauer also wrote the book Into Thin Air, which was a personal account of a Mount Everest disaster. Into the Wild won an award for Mountain Literature in 1996 and his Iceland magazine article was nominated for a National Magazine award in 1994. Jon Krakauer has become a well-known author, especially for his stories about nature and the wilderness.

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