Laura Hillenbrand

Laura Hillenbrand is an American author, born in 1967. While a student at Kenyon College in Ohio she fell seriously ill with myalgic encephalomyelitis, also called chronic fatigue syndrome, and had to leave before completing her degree. She began as a freelance magazine writer, especially for the horse magazine Equus, where she became a contributing editor. Her first book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2001), tells the story of an undersized racehorse who became a champion during the Great Depression, and of his owner, trainer and jockey. It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and was adapted into a film. Her second book, Unbroken (2010), tells the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner whose bomber crashed in the Pacific during the Second World War, leaving him adrift for weeks before he was captured. It was also adapted for film. The two books have sold more than thirteen million copies. In 2003 she wrote about her illness in an essay, A Sudden Illness, in The New Yorker.

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