Author

Books by Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer is an American journalist and author best known for Into the Wild and Into Thin Air. He has written extensively for Outside magazine and other publications, and his books consistently combine meticulous research with high narrative tension. Under the Banner of Heaven was his first book to focus primarily on religion and criminal justice rather than extreme outdoor environments. He has also written Missoula, an account of campus sexual assault in a college town. Krakauer is known for embedding deeply in his subjects and for writing with evident moral urgency.