Author Biography

The author of Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, has had a very interesting and eventful life. He was born Massachusetts, but grew up in Oregon. He became involved in athletics at an early age and began hiking when he was 8 years old. Once Krakauer was in college, he joined a group of mountaineers that climbed the Arrigetch Peaks. He then worked as a writer and a commercial salmon fisherman. In 1983, he quit his other job and became a full-time writer. In 1996, he embarked on his most famous climb of Mt. Everest. By the time that he had finished his journey, he was the only survivor left. In that same year, he also published his first major work, Into the Wild.