Jon Krakauer
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 12 Apr 1954
- Works
- 23
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level
- Under the Banner of Heaven
- Krakauer essencial
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1954-04-12
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,451
- Total plays
- 39,799
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Rethinking the Inception Architecture for Computer Vision
· 2016 · cited 22,096x
- Safety, Activity, and Immune Correlates of Anti–PD-1 Antibody in Cancer
· 2012 · cited 10,836x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,803x
- Mindfulness-based interventions in context: Past, present, and future.
· 2003 · cited 10,063x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,265x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1954-04-12 ) April 12, 1954 (age 72) , Brookline, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Hampshire College ( BA )
- Occupations
- Writer, mountaineer
- Spouse
- Linda Mariam Moore ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980 )
- Period
- 1990–present
- Subject
- Outdoor literature
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling nonfiction books—Into the Wild; Into Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman—as well as numerous magazine articles. He was a member of an ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest, which would become the subject of Into Thin Air.
Early life
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