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Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It is an expansion of a 9,000-word article by Krakauer on Chris McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside. [2] The book was adapted to a film of the same name in 2007, directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless.
Into the Wild was released as a paperback in the US on 6 January 2004. [9] On 4 September 2007, the book was released as an eBook , [ 10 ] and on Amazon's Kindle . [ 11 ] The book was one of the first to be in HarperCollins' "Browse Inside" program where twenty percent of the novel is available online.
Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical adventure drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Sean Penn.It is an adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name written by Jon Krakauer and tells the story of Christopher McCandless ("Alexander Supertramp"), a man who hiked across North America into the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s.
Chip Brown's full-length article on McCandless, "I Now Walk Into the Wild" (February 8, 1993), was published in The New Yorker. [4] Jon Krakauer's non-fiction book Into the Wild (1996) expands upon his 1993 Outside article and retraces McCandless's travels leading up to the hiker's eventual death.
Jon Krakauer Krakauer, 2009 Born (1954-04-12) April 12, 1954 (age 70) Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. Alma mater Hampshire College (BA) Occupation(s) Writer, mountaineer Spouse Linda Mariam Moore (m. 1980) Writing career Period 1990–present Subject Outdoor literature Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling nonfiction books ...
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Into the Wild (1996), non-fiction book by Jon Krakauer about Chris McCandless . Into the Wild (2007), directed by Sean Penn, based on the non-fiction book . Into the Wild (2007), by Eddie Vedder for the film