Jon Krakauer
Autore di Into the wild
Sull'Autore
Jon Krakauer was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on April 12, 1954. He received a degree in environmental studies from Hampshire College in Massachusetts in 1976. He worked as a carpenter, fisherman, and writer. He articles on mountain climbing appeared in several publications including GQ, mostra altro National Geographic, Architectural Digest, Playboy, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone. In 1996, he climbed Mt. Everest, but a storm took the lives of four of the five teammates who reached the summit with him. An analysis of the calamity he wrote for Outside magazine received a National Magazine Award. An article he wrote for Smithsonian about volcanology received the 1997 Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism. He is the author of several books including Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster; Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith; Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman; Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way; and Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town. His book, Into the Wild, was made into a movie in 2007. He is also the editor of the Modern Library Exploration series. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster {abridged audio} (1997) — Author & Reader — 97 copie
Opere correlate
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (1999) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 481 copie
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (2011) — Prefazione — 331 copie
Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer (2011) — Prefazione — 216 copie
The mountain of my fear {and} Deborah : a wilderness narrative (1991) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 65 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1954-04-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
Boulder, Colorado, USA - Istruzione
- Hampshire College (1977 | Environmental Studies)
- Attività lavorative
- mountaineer
journalist
editor, Exploration series - Organizzazioni
- Outside
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1999)
- Agente
- John Ware
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Discussioni
True story: Young "supertramp" dies alone after eating potatoe seeds. in Name that Book (Gennaio 2013)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 27
- Opere correlate
- 14
- Utenti
- 46,872
- Popolarità
- #338
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 1,193
- ISBN
- 352
- Lingue
- 26
- Preferito da
- 155