Jon Krakauer
Auteur de Into the wild. Voyage au bout de la solitude
A propos de l'auteur
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, afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Œuvres de Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster {abridged audio} (1997) — Author & Reader — 97 exemplaires
How Chris McCandless Died: An Update 2 exemplaires
Loving Them to Death 1 exemplaire
Outside, September 1996 (Into Thin Air) 1 exemplaire
Rocky Times for Banff 1 exemplaire
A new vision for a museum on the Mall 1 exemplaire
High and Hallowed 1 exemplaire
Into the wild: nelle terre selvagge 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (1999) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 479 exemplaires
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (1917) — Préface, quelques éditions — 430 exemplaires
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (2011) — Préface — 329 exemplaires
Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer (2011) — Avant-propos — 215 exemplaires
The mountain of my fear {and} Deborah : a wilderness narrative (1991) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 65 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1954-04-12
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Etats-Unis
- Lieu de naissance
- Brookline, Massachusetts, Etats-Unis
- Lieux de résidence
- Brookline, Massachusetts, Etats-Unis
Corvallis, Oregon, Etats-Unis
Seattle, Washington, Etats-Unis
Boulder, Colorado, Etats-Unis - Études
- Hampshire College (1977 | Environmental Studies)
- Professions
- Alpiniste
Ecrivain
Journaliste - Organisations
- Outside
- Prix et distinctions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1999)
- Agent
- John Ware
Membres
Discussions
True story: Young "supertramp" dies alone after eating potatoe seeds. à Name that Book (Janvier 2013)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 27
- Aussi par
- 14
- Membres
- 46,762
- Popularité
- #338
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1,191
- ISBN
- 352
- Langues
- 26
- Favoris
- 155
Voyage au pays de la foi absolue et de l’obscurantisme, de la polygamie, du mariage de fillettes de 14 ans par des pédophiles incestueux, du radicalisme, du refus d’autre autorité que celle de Dieu et de l’obscurantisme créationniste.
Construit autour du meurtre d’une femme et de sa fille par deux frères de son mari au nom de Dieu et parce qu’elle ouvrait quand vraiment trop sa gueule, ce livre révolte bien plus d’une foi(s) tout en retraçant l’histoire des mormons.
Gore et édifiant… (plus d'informations)