Jon Krakauer
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Sobre El Autor
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, mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Obras de Jon Krakauer
Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way (2011) 474 copias, 34 reseñas
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster {abridged audio} (1997) — Author & Reader — 96 copias, 2 reseñas
How Chris McCandless Died: An Update 2 copias
Underground Halifax 2 copias
Loving Them to Death 1 copia
Rocky Times for Banff 1 copia
High and Hallowed 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (1999) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 490 copias, 12 reseñas
En la noche y entre los hielos : la expedición polar noruega de 1893 a 1896 (1897) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 414 copias, 12 reseñas
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (2011) — Prólogo — 339 copias, 32 reseñas
Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer (2011) — Prólogo — 222 copias, 10 reseñas
Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks (1997) — Contribuidor — 179 copias, 3 reseñas
High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (Adrenaline) (1998) — Contribuidor — 114 copias, 2 reseñas
The mountain of my fear {and} Deborah : a wilderness narrative (1991) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 67 copias, 1 reseña
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1954-04-12
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
Boulder, Colorado, USA - Educación
- Hampshire College (1977 | Environmental Studies)
- Ocupaciones
- mountaineer
journalist
editor, Exploration series - Organizaciones
- Outside
- Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1999)
- Agente
- John Ware
Miembros
Debates
True story: Young "supertramp" dies alone after eating potatoe seeds. en Name that Book (Enero 2013)
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- Obras
- 30
- También por
- 14
- Miembros
- 47,630
- Popularidad
- #332
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 1,208
- ISBNs
- 354
- Idiomas
- 26
- Favorito
- 155