Krakauer, the child of art historians and philologists, an English major (UJ, 1991) and humanist by training, an English major and hobbit by passion, is lucky to love what he does and to do what he loves – as a translator he helps fight the aftermath of what the Tower of Babel has done to people, and as an entertainer he “laughs, tantalizes, frightens.” Husband, father of a grown daughter.