When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime. - Jon Krakauer

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When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime.

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About Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American journalist, author of non-fiction books, and mountaineer. In 1999 he received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Although he is perhaps best known as an "adventure writer," Krakauer has in fact written about a wide range of subjects since very early in his career.

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