* 1954 – Jon Krakauer, American author

* The 2003 book Under the Banner of Heaven written by Jon Krakauer discusses locations throughout Utah County.

The 1996 book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer mentions Salton City as a place where Chris McCandless stopped in his travels and spent time with a man named Franz.

Carthage gained a small amount of attention when it was featured in the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.

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** Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

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In a 1993 Outside magazine article about Christopher McCandless that he later expanded into the best-selling book, Into the Wild ( which was also made into a film ), Jon Krakauer summarizes the portrait of Christopher painted by friends, family, and schoolmates thusly: " McCandless could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify throughout his college years.

In the 1997 text Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer — a personal account of the events of the 1996 Everest disaster — Krakauer states: " Walter Mittys with Everest dreams need to bear in mind that when things go wrong up in the death zone ( above 26, 000 feet ) — and sooner or later they always do — the strongest guides in the world may be powerless to save a client's life ; indeed as the events of 1996 demonstrated, the strongest guides in the world are sometimes powerless to save even their own lives.

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It was chronicled in a number of books, including Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, which was generally critical of Boukreev, and The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev and Gary Weston DeWalt.

Accounts of what happened in 1996 were described in the books The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev and Gary DeWalt, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, Left for Dead by Beck Weathers, and Climbing High by Lene Gammelgaard.

* 1939 – Jon Tolaas, Norwegian poet and author ( d. 2012 )

* 1962 – Jon Berkeley, Irish author and illustrator

* 1945 – Jon Scieszka, American author

* Jon Turley ( born 26 April 1971 ), an author who writes children's books, has lived in Kidderminster since the mid 1990s and was born some fifteen miles away in Worcester.

The one known author of the trio is Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen, whose home was raided in 2000 by Norwegian police.

The author Jon Hassler was raised in Plainview and some of the places in his writing are based on the town.

* Walter Jon Williams-Nebula Award winning science fiction author

In 2004, author Jon Ronson cited an unclassified military report titled " Non-Lethal Weapons: Terms and References " 21 acoustic weapons were listed, in various stages of development, including the Infrasound (" Very low-frequency sound which can travel long distances and easily penetrate most buildings and vehicles ... biophysical effects are projected to be: nausea, loss of bowels, disorientation, vomiting, potential internal organ damage or death may occur.

Protests against the indictment of DeCSS author Jon Johansen and legislation prohibiting publication of DeCSS code took many forms.

* Jon Krakauer-mountaineer and author

People involved in the arts and born in the town include the actress Kathleen Harrison in 1892 ; Alfred Wainwright, author of the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, in 1907 ; broadcaster Russell Harty in 1934 ; the internationally renowned Contemporary artist Ross Eccles in 1937, many of his paintings feature Blackburn and Lancashire scenes and landmarks ; the writer Josephine Cox in 1941 who set many of her novels in Lancashire ; the actor Anthony Valentine in 1939 ; the actor Michael Billington, star of UFO in 1941 ; actor Ian McShane in 1942 ; rock musician Tony Ashton in 1946 ; actor Jon Walmsley in 1956 ; film maker Michael Winterbottom in 1961 ; actor Steve Pemberton in 1967 ; actress Wendi Peters in 1968 ; actor / comedian Lee Mack in 1968 ; television host Debbie Travis ; author Tony O ' Neill in 1978 ; television presenter and documentary director Michael Gibson in 1980 ; and singer and actress Diana Vickers in 1991.

People born in Newport include film director Peter Greenaway CBE, author Leslie Thomas OBE, actors Michael Sheen OBE, Desmond Llewelyn, and musicians Grant Nicholas and Jon Lee of the rock band Feeder.

The author of Playfair used the source code written by Jon Johansen for VLC.

In April 2007, Jon B. Gould, an author and George Mason University faculty member, criticized FIRE's rating methods, claiming that FIRE had grossly exaggerated the prevalence of unconstitutional speech codes.

Jon Huntsman's declaration of February 18, 2009 as Wallace Stegner Day highlighted Stegner as " one of Utah's most prominent citizens ... a legendary voice for Utah and the West as an author, educator, and conservationist ... was raised and educated in Salt Lake City and the University of Utah, possess a lifelong love of Utah ’ s landscapes, people, and culture.

* Jon Appleton, American composer, author and professor of music

Alumni who have become notable through literature include the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author Maxwell Anderson, Rhodes scholar and poet Thomas McGrath, essayist and journalist Chuck Klosterman, and novelist Jon Hassler.

The shop and post-office used to be run by author Jon Haylett.

Cromwell is the author of Private Planet ( Charlbury: Jon Carpenter Publishing, 2001 ) and Why Are We The Good Guys?

Noted faculty members include food expert and author Michael Pollan, former 60 Minutes news producer Lowell Bergman, New Yorker writer and author Mark Danner, NPR Morning Edition founding editor William J. Drummond, documentary filmmaker Jon H. Else and former Africa bureau chief for the Washington Post Neil Henry.

* John Donaldson ( author ) ( 1921 – 1989 ), a. k. a. Jon Inglis, a British author and poet