Laura Hillenbrand (born May 15, 1967) is an American author for books and magazine articles. Two of his best-selling nonfiction books, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2001) and Unbroken: Story II of World War II on Survival, Resilience and Redemption (2010), have sold 13 million copies, and each is tailored for the film. His writing style is different from New Journalism, dropping "verbal fireworks" for the sake of a stronger focus on the story itself.
Hillenbrand got sick in college and could not finish her degree. He shared the experience in an award-winning essay, A Sudden Illness, published in The New Yorker in 2003. His books were written when he was disabled by the disease. In an interview in 2014, Bob Schieffer told Laura Hillenbrand: "For me your story - fighting your illness... is as interesting as his story (Louis Zamperini)."
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Careers
Hillenbrand's first book is the one recognized by Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2001), a nonfiction story about Seabiscuit's great seahorse career, which he won the William Hill Book of the Year in 2001. He said he was forced to tell the story because he "finds fascinating people living in a story that is impossible, amazing and ultimately more fulfilling than any story he has ever met." He first told the story through an essay, "The Four Good Feet Among Us", published in the American Heritage magazine, and his feedback was positive, so he decided to continue with the full book. This book received positive reviews for storytelling and research. It was made into an Academy Award nominated film Seabiscuit (2003).
The second book of Hillenbrand, Unbroken: World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010), is a biography of World Zone hero Louis Zamperini. The film adaptation of this book is called Unbroken (2014).
Both of these books dominate the best sellers list in both hardback and paperback. Combined, they have sold more than 10 million copies, which reported in 2016 has risen to over 13 million copies.
The Hillenbrand article has appeared in the magazine The New Yorker , Equus , American Heritage , The Blood-Horse > Thoroughbred Times , The Backstretch , Turf and Sport Digest , and other publications. His article of 1998 American Heritage on the Seabiscuit horse won the Eclipse Award for Magazine Writing.
Hillenbrand is one of the founders of Operation International Children.
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Writing style
His writing style belonged to the nonfiction writer's new school, which came after new journalism, focused more on the story than the literary prose style:
Hillenbrand belongs to a generation of writers who emerged in response to the 1960s style explosion. New Journalism Pioneers like Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer want to blur the line between literature and reportage by incorporating real stories with verbal fireworks and eccentric sounds of narration. But many writers began to emerge in the 1990s... approaching the craft of narrative journalism in a quieter way. They still build stories around characters and scenes, with interior dialogue and perspective, but they get rid of linguistic skills that draw attention to the writing itself.
Personal life
Hillenbrand was born in Fairfax, Virginia, daughter and youngest of four children Elizabeth Marie Dwyer, a child psychologist, and Bernard Francis Hillenbrand, a lobbyist who became minister. Hillenbrand spent much of his childhood riding a horse "screaming on a hill" on his father's Sharpsburg, Maryland farm. Her favorite childhood book is Come On Seabiscuit . "I read it to death, a copy of my little paperback," he said. He studied at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, but was forced to leave before graduation when he contracted a chronic fatigue syndrome, with which he has struggled ever since. By the end of 2015, he lives in Washington, D.C, and rarely leaves his home because of the condition. Hillenbrand married Borden Flanagan, a professor of government at American University and college lover, in 2006. In 2014, they split up after 28 years as a couple, who live in separate homes.
In the fall of 2015, Hillenbrand traveled overland to Oregon, the first time out of Washington D. C. Since 1990 it has not produced a truly debilitating vertigo. He lived in Oregon since the trip. She travels across the US with her new boyfriend, making many stops along the way to see the country. He reported that traveling to "look at America" ​​was risky, but his preparations resulted in a successful journey and much excitement from activities added a long absence from his life. This is made possible by the discipline scheme for two years to increase its tolerance for traveling without evoking vertigo. This disease does not heal but its capacity increases.
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Hillenbrand had an unexpected sudden attack at the age of 19 years. He is a second-year student at Kenyon College. Until his symptoms strike, he is a diligent tennis player, cycling in a nearby country and playing football in the square. One day driving back to school from spring break, she became violently ill. Three days later, he can barely sit on the bed and he can not walk to class. "Fear, confused, he dropped out of school" and his sister drove him home. She performed shuttled from doctor to doctor for a year before being diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome at Johns Hopkins. He said it was the most horrible year of his life. Since the name of the disease does not represent the extent of the disease, in 2011 Hillenbrand said its diagnosis:
This is why I talk about it. You can not see me and say I'm lazy or that this is someone who wants to avoid working. The average person who has this disease, before they get it, we are not lazy people; it is so typical that people are type A and hard-working hard. I am that kind of person. I work off campus and love him. This is annoying because of the name, which is patronizing and very misleading. Fatigue is what we experience, but that is what fits with the atomic bomb.
The Hillenbrand family and friends did not understand his illness and withdrew, leaving Hillenbrand to fight the unknown disease himself. He is greeted with ridicule and says that he is lazy during the first ten years of his illness. In 2014, he said, "'I am not taken seriously, and it is a disaster.If I get proper medical care to start - or at least emotional support, because I do not get it - can I get better? sick 27 years later? '"
He described the onset and early years of his illness in the award-winning essay, A Sudden Illness in 2003. The disease governs his life as a writer, keeping him stuck in his home. He reads old newspaper articles by buying old newspapers or borrowing them from the library, rather than using microfilms or other forms of archived news articles, and doing all his direct interviews over the phone.
On the irony of writing about a physical paragraph when it becomes so self-immobilizing, Hillenbrand says, "I am looking for a way out of here I can not have it physically, so I will have it intellectually It is beautiful to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination and just fantastic was there with Louie when he broke the NCAA mile record People in this energetic moment of their lives - that's my way of living in a representative way. "
In an interview in 2014, Bob Schieffer told Laura Hillenbrand: For me your story - fighting your illness.... equally impressive with her story (Louis Zamperini).
In 2015-2016, he reported a change in his health status in an interview with Paul Costello for Stanford Medicine: "Recently, Hillenbrand has made many changes in his medical care and in his life.There is optimism in his voice and a sense of awe at the start of a new one. "Vertigo has become a serious problem for him, so he has not left Washington DC since 1990 because of it. After a disciplined attempt to tolerate driving a car, ranging from five minutes and increasing to two hours over two years, he was able to get out of Washington D. C. after 25 years. He does not recover, "I'm not well.I'm not good either.I always deal with symptoms," [emphasis in the original language]. The change in his health allowed him to travel across the country to Oregon. He also started riding horses and riding bicycles, two activities he had not done since the disease attacked him in 1987.
References
External links
- Laura Hillenbrand on IMDb
- Laura Hillenbrand on Seabiscuit.com
- "Unbroken" Official website
- James Rosen from Fox interview with Laura Hillenbrand
- Laura Hillenbrand on Curlie (based on DMOZ)
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