Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954, in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American writer, journalist and mountaineer. Raised in Corvallis, Oregon, he took up climbing young and became known for his magazine work, much of it for Outside, some of which was collected in Eiger Dreams (1990).

His books of narrative nonfiction include Into the Wild (1996), an account of Christopher McCandless's death in the Alaskan wilderness; Into Thin Air (1997), his first-hand report of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster; Under the Banner of Heaven (2003), on Mormon fundamentalism and a double murder; Where Men Win Glory (2009), on the football player and soldier Pat Tillman; and Missoula (2015), on sexual assault cases in a Montana college town.

He lives in Boulder, Colorado.