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Laura Hillenbrand

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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.


— Laura Hillenbrand


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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.


— Laura Hillenbrand


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For 'Seabiscuit,' I interviewed 100 people I never met.


— Laura Hillenbrand


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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.


— Laura Hillenbrand


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About Laura Hillenbrand






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A favorite of hers was Come On Seabiscuit a 1963 kiddie book. On the irony of writing about physical paragons while being so incapacitated herself Laura Hillenbrand says "I'm looking for a way out of here. Personal life
Hillenbrand suffers from debilitating chronic fatigue syndrome and remains largely confined to her home.

Hillenbrand's second book was Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival Resilience and Redemption (2010) a biography of World War II hero Louis Zamperini. C and rarely leaves her house because of the condition. Hillenbrand married Borden Flanagan a professor of Government at American University and her college sweetheart in 2008.

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