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I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

Jon Krakauer

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Jon Krakauer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 12
Explorer
Journalist
Mountaineer
Writer
Brookline
Massachusetts
Never
Studied
Fantasy
Reader
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