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Laura Hillenbrand

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in Fairfax, Virginia, The United States

May 15, 1967

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http://laurahillenbrandbooks.com/

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Laura Hillenbrand (born 1967) is the author of the acclaimed Seabiscuit: An American Legend, a non-fiction account 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 basis 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 Sport 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 Legend, a non-fiction account of the career of the great racehorse Seabiscuit, for which she won the

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Books by Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 974,792 ratings — published 2010 — 182 editions

Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 165,788 ratings — published 1999 — 118 editions

Seabiscuit: The Screenplay
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4.29 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions

Unbroken (Korean Edition) Vol.2
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3.98 avg rating — 60 ratings

Unbroken (Korean Edition) Vol.1
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3.97 avg rating — 39 ratings

Seabisquit an American Legend
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4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings

Unbroken: a World War II Airman's Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings

Seabiscuit
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings

Dark Horse
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions

Equus, No. 222, April 1996
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER hailed by TIME magazine as the best nonfiction book of the year. One of the longest-running New York Times bestsellers of all time, Unbroken spent more than four years on the Times list in hardcover, fifteen weeks at number one. Released in paperback, Unbroken debuted at #1 and remained there for dozens of weeks. The book is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award for Biography. The young reader edition, released in November, 2014, is also a New York Times bestseller.

“STAGGERING … MESMERIZING … Any one of the threads in Hillenbrand’s monumental new book could be a page-turner all its own… Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don’t dare take your eyes off the page.”–People

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who