On April 12, 1954, in Brookline, MA, Jon Krakauer was born as the third child of a five child family. At about two years old his family packed up and moved to Oregon. His father introduced him to mountaineering when he was only eight years old. He decided to head back to Massachusetts to study at Hampshire College and graduated in 1976. Shortly after that, in 1977, he spent three weeks by himself in the wilderness. Remind you of a certain situation? He also fell in love with climber Linda Moore and settled down in 1980, although this didn't keep him from mountaineering. Krakauer wrote many books, his most famous being Into the Wild and Into Thin Air. Into the Wild became a New-York times best seller, for two years while Into Thin Air was given an academy award in 1999. His works are said to be inspiring and vivid.
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