Jon Krakauer is an American where he was born in 1954 at Brookline, Massachusetts (59 years old). He is the best selling author of "Into the Wild". He also wrote other books like "Into Thin Air" and "Under the Banner of Heaven". One cool fact about Jon Krakauer is that he reached to the top of Mt.Everest in 1996, this is where he released his book Into Thin Air.