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Laura Hillenbrand

Bio

Laura Hillenbrand is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, and Seabiscuit: An American Legend, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, won the Book Sense Book of the Year Award and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, landed on more than fifteen best-of-the-year lists, and inspired the film Seabiscuit, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. She served as a consultant on the Universal Pictures feature film based on Unbroken. Hillenbrand’s New Yorker article, “A Sudden Illness,” won the 2004 National Magazine Award. Her work has also appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. She and actor Gary Sinise are the cofounders of Operation International Children, a charity that provides school supplies to children through American troops.

Laura Hillenbrand Books

Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation) book cover

Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation)

Laura Hillenbrand
Unbroken book cover

Unbroken

Laura Hillenbrand
Seabiscuit book cover

Seabiscuit

Laura Hillenbrand
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