Into the Wild Author Bio

John Krakauer was born in Brookline Massachusetts.  He was then raised in Corvallis Oregon.  When he was eight his father introduced mountaineering.  He went to Corvallis High School where he graduated in 1972.  He went to Hampshire College and graduated with a degree in Environmental Science in 1977.  He married Linda Mariam Moore in 1980, who was a mountain climber.  They lived in Seattle Washington, then moved to Boulder Colorado.  In 1983 he became a full-time writer.  He has now written six famous books.