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Jon Krakauer

1954 - Today

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Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling non-fiction 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jon Krakauer has received more than 4,379,978 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Jon Krakauer is the 27th most popular mountaineer (down from 26th in 2019), the 3,713th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,434th in 2019) and the most popular American Mountaineer.

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  • 4.4M

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  • 53.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Jon Krakauer ranks 27 out of 56. Before him are John Muir, Albert F. Mummery, Lionel Terray, Andrew Irvine, Anatoli Boukreev, and Krzysztof Wielicki. After him are Peter Habeler, Fanny Bullock Workman, Erhard Loretan, Riccardo Cassin, Rob Hall, and Ardito Desio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Jon Krakauer ranks 157. Before him are Juliane Koepcke, Didier Six, Viktor Zolotov, Will Patton, Bobby Sands, and Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria. After him are Pascal Greggory, Bruce Sterling, Władysław Żmuda, Henk ten Cate, Milovan Rajevac, and Alice.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jon Krakauer ranks 3,713 out of 20,380. Before him are Tim Buckley (1947), Howard Fast (1914), William Thurston (1946), Richard E. Bellman (1920), Carlos Lopes (1947), and Vince Gilligan (1967). After him are Harris Yulin (1937), Mancur Olson (1932), Sandra Faber (1944), Eddie Albert (1906), Crispin Glover (1964), and Paul Gallico (1897).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In United States

Among mountaineers born in United States, Jon Krakauer ranks 1. After him are Fanny Bullock Workman (1859), Dean Potter (1972), Erik Weihenmayer (1968), and Jordan Romero (1996).

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