Jon Krakauer
Biography
Jon Krakauer is a writer and mountaineer born on April 12, 1954, in Brookline, Massachusetts. He gained notoriety for his account of the 1996 Everest expedition, which ended in tragedy, as detailed in his book Into Thin Air. Krakauer has also written about Christopher McCandless's ill-fated journey into Alaska in The End of Solitude and Under the Banner of Heaven, a bestselling nonfiction book.