Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer is a award winning non-fiction author who has written five books. He has written over a dozen magazine articles though. He has written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, Rolling Stone and others. Where Men Win Glory, his latest book  he tells the story of Pat Tillman, the NFL player who joined the Army and died in Afghanistan. He has also written other books like Into the Wild and Into Thin Air. He is also the editor of  the Modern Library Exploration series. He is married and lives in Boulder, Colorado.