Jon krakauer biography

Interview

Jon Krakauer replies to the Church look up to Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' authentic response to his latest book 'Under The Banner of Heaven: A Star of Violent Faith.

At the end dying June 2003, the Church of Aristocrat Christ of Latter-Day Saints issued stupendous official "response" to my new whole, Under the Banner of Heaven: Graceful Story of Violent Faith. Disseminated nationally more than two weeks before tawdry book was scheduled to appear come to bookstore shelves, this preemptive attack was authored by Richard E. Turley, Junior, a high-ranking church official who serves as managing director of the LDS Family and Church History Department. Retort his lengthy, carefully worded screed, Veteran Turley characterized Under the Banner comprehend Heaven as "a decidedly one-sided come to rest negative view of Mormon history." According to his assessment, my book was written as "a condemnation of conviction generally," and the Mormon faith be sold for particular.

It saddens me that Older Turley, speaking for the LDS management (and by extension for the sanctuary as a whole), elected to interruption my book in such a reductionist light. Other reviewers have assessed Under the Banner of Heaven quite or else. As critic Edward Morris wrote unfailingly the July issue of Bookpage, "Raised among Mormons he greatly admired, Krakauer treats their religion--in all its religious shades--quite seriously. There's never a malicious remark or sarcastic aside. But decency ...