Laura hillenbrand author biography sample
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Leading on the backstretch
by Amy Blumenthal
If you haven't yet heard of Laura Hillenbrand, you will. Her recently published book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Random House, 2001; see "Books" in this issue) swiftly rose to the number-one spot on the New York Times bestseller list within three weeks of appearing in stores. National media from the Washington Post to NBC News with Tom Brokaw to National Public Radio, in addition to lavishing praise on her book, have focused attention on Hillenbrand herself. For not only has she written the engrossing and dramatic tale of America's most famous racehorse set against the background of the American Depression, but she has done so while battling pain and illness.
Hillenbrand, who matriculated with the Class of 1989, left Kenyon after two years due to the sudden onset of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Over the last fourteen years, the incurable disease has expressed itself not only in debilitating exhaustio
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Leaving frailty behind
She is an author of extraordinary success. Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit and Unbroken are literary phenomenons: Together, there are more than 13 million copies in print, and both have been made into blockbuster motion pictures. Seabiscuit, published in 2001, tells the story of a racehorse that captured America’s heart during the Great Depression. Unbroken, published in 2010, is the biography of World War II hero Louis Zamperini, who survived a bomber crash into the Pacific and more than 2½ years as a prisoner of war in Japan. Hillenbrand wrote the books while besieged by chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME/CFS, which has at times ravaged her like a tidal wave. Stricken in 1987, she has endured vertigo and exhaustion so severe that for many years she was incapacitated and housebound.
Recently, Hillenbrand has made a lot of changes in her medical treatments and in her life. There’s optimism in her voice and a sense of wonderment at new beginnings. A big o
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Laura Hillenbrand
Born
in Fairfax, Virginia, The United StatesMay 15, 1967
Website
http://laurahillenbrandbooks.com/
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Laura Hillenbrand (born 1967) fryst vatten the author of the acclaimed Seabiscuit: An American Legend, a non-fiction konto of the career of the great racehorse Seabiscuit, for which she won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2001. The book later became the grund of the 2003 movie Seabiscuit. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Equus magazine, American Heritage, The Blood-Horse, Thoroughbred Times, The Backstretch, Turf and idrott Digest, and many other publications. Her 1998 American Heritage article on the horse Seabiscuit won the Eclipse Award for Magazine Writing.
Born in Fairfax, Virginia, Hillenbrand studied at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, but was forced to leave before graduation when she contracted chronic fatigue syndromeLaura Hillenbrand (born 1967) is the author of the acclaimed Seabiscuit: An American L