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Laura Hillenbrand
Laura Hillenbrand is author of two award-winning, best-selling books: Seabiscuit: An American Legend, about a champion race horse who became a national legend during the Great Depression, and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, about a promising track Olympian who suffered years as a WWII POW in Japan.[1] Both books were adapted into acclaimed movies.[2][3]
Since she was 19 years old, Hillenbrand has lived with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).[4] She is open about her illness, writing "A Sudden Illness," a poignant essay in the The New Yorker about the onset and her long confinement as she slowly recovered.[5] At the same time, when asked in a The New York Times interview whether she would ever write an autobiography, she said: "I have to spend so much time being vigilant on my body and worrying about my body and suffering. So much of my own autobiography would be about my health, and I don’t know if I want to spend myfessional life thinking about that. I write to escape my circumstances."[6]
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"Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb."[7]
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Laura Hillenbrand
Laura Hillenbrand is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller SEABISCUIT: An American Legend, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, won the Book Sense Nonfiction Book of the Year award and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award, landed on more than fifteen best-of-the-year lists, and inspired the film Seabiscuit, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Hillenbrand’s New Yorker article, “A Sudden Illness,” won the National Magazine Award, and she is a two-time winner of the Eclipse Award, the highest journalistic honor in thoroughbred racing. She and actor Gary Sinise are the co-founders of Operation International Children (), a charity that provides school supplies to children through American troops. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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Books by Laura Hillenbrand
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand- Biography, History, NonfictionUnbroken - Audiobook
written by Laura Hillenbrand, read by Edward Herrmann- Biography, History, Nonfiction