Krakauer jon biography of christopher

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Adventure writer Jon Krakauer's book "Into the Wild" is a journalistic yet personal examination of the life and death of Chris McCandless.

After graduating college, McCandless donated his life savings, cut off contact with his family, and vanished, becoming a nomad and living under the assumed identity Alexander Supertramp. For two years he explored America, meeting other travelers and friends before venturing into the Alaskan wilderness and perishing at 24 years old.

Sean Penn read the book twice in and immediately knew he wanted to make it into a film.

As reported by The Los Angeles Times, Penn spent the next decade convincing McCandless' family to sell him the rights to Chris' story. The film adaptation, "Into The Wild," is an elegiac celebration of McCandless' (Emile Hirsch) wanderlust and a glimpse of his tragic death, told from McCandless' perspective and through his s