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Laura Hillenbrand
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Laura Hillenbrand is an American nonfiction author known for Seabiscuit and Unbroken, which tell stories of athletic achievement and wartime survival.
Biography
Laura Hillenbrand, born May 15, 1967, is an American author whose nonfiction books include Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2001) and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010). Together, these bestselling books have sold more than 13 million copies, and both have been adapted for film. Her writing emphasizes the story rather than elaborate verbal effects.
Hillenbrand became ill during college and could not complete her degree. She described that experience in A Sudden Illness, an award-winning essay published in The New Yorker in 2003. She wrote her books while disabled by myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome.
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Books by Laura Hillenbrand
Unbroken
Unbroken follows Louis Zamperini from a troubled boyhood to the Berlin Olympics and service as an Army Air Forces bombardier. After his bomber crashes into the Pacific in May 1943, he faces an ordeal of survival involving a fragile raft, sharks, thirst, starvation, and enemy aircraft.