Born in 1954, in Brookline, Massachusetts, John Krakauer never imagined he would ever become a writer. At a young age, he had already discovered the wonders of mountain climbing. It was meeting fellow mountain climber David Roberts at Hampshire College that Krakauer found that he likes to write as well as mountain climb. As he was able to bring both his writing career and his love for climbing together into one world, Krakauer was offered a job to write about various climbs for the American Alpine club, which he gladly accepted. Both of his hobbies were sidetracked when he fell in love and married Linda Moore in 1980. But, not soon after, he was appointed to write about the turmoil of Christopher McCandless, which became the popular novel Into the Wild. After that, he continued to write many more articles and short stories, including Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, about his own personal attempt to climb Mount Everest. To this day, John Krakauer is still both an avid mountain climber, and a successful author.
Source Citation: "Jon Krakauer." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Harford County Public Library. 19 Jan. 2010 .
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