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  • Jon Krakauer
    Jon Krakauer
    / Early career: Mountaineering and writing

    …wrote essays for magazines including Smithsonian and New Age Journal; one of his articles for Smithsonian won him a Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism in 1997. In 1990, Krakauer published his debut book, Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains, a collection of several essays he had…

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    …wrote essays for magazines including Smithsonian and New Age Journal; one of his articles for Smithsonian won him a Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism in 1997. In 1990, Krakauer published his debut book, Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains, a collection of several essays he had…

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