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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 4,213,630 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Jon Krakauer is the 27th most popular mountaineer (down from 24th in 2019), the 3,443rd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,496th in 2019) and the most popular American Mountaineer.

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  • 52.85

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Jon Krakauer ranks 27 out of 45. Before him are Matthias Zurbriggen, Anatoli Boukreev, Lionel Terray, Alain Robert, Andrew Irvine, and Krzysztof Wielicki. After him are Albert F. Mummery, Peter Habeler, Rob Hall, Erhard Loretan, Fanny Bullock Workman, and Ardito Desio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Jon Krakauer ranks 128. Before him are David Lee Roth, Karin Fossum, Margaux Hemingway, Phil Taylor, Jeffrey Sachs, and Abdelilah Benkirane. After him are László Krasznahorkai, Henk ten Cate, Viktor Medvedchuk, Branko Ivanković, Brigitte Lin, and Carlos Agostinho do Rosário.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jon Krakauer ranks 3,443 out of 18,182. Before him are Jessica Walter (1941), Mickey Spillane (1918), Geraldine Farrar (1882), Paul Giamatti (1967), Alexander Vandegrift (1887), and Dana Andrews (1909). After him are Jill Clayburgh (1944), Farley Granger (1925), Bob Seger (1945), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Ross Perot (1930), and Heather Graham (1970).

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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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