Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild, was born in Massachussetts and then moved to Corvallis, Oregon when he was two. He was very athletic, even at an early age, and at eight his father introduced him to mountaineering. He graduated from the Corvallis School in 1972 and then attended Hampshire College. At Hampshire, he studied Environmental Science and was part of a group who pioneered in climbing the Arrigetch Peaks. He was invited to write about this experience by the American Alpine Journal. He recieved his bachelor's degree in 1976 and the next year spent three weeks alone in the Stikine Icecap region of Alaska. It was there he met Linda Mariam Moore, whom he married in 1980. Krakauer worked as a salmon fisherman, carpenter, and a writer. He later abandoned the other two jobs to write full time. In 1996, he climbed Mount Everest. On the descent from the mountain, the group was caught in an ice storm and four of the group members were killed. Krakauer has earned the National Magazine for an article on his Mount Everest climb and the 1997 Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for an artice on Mt. Ranier. He now lives in Seattle with his life and is an editor-at-large of Outdoors magazine.
Information: "Jon Krakauer." Gale Student Resources in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 8 Feb. 2011.
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