Laura Hillenbrand

Laura Hillenbrand is author of several bestselling books including Seabiscuit: An American Legend and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. She has ME/CFS and is open about her illness.

Notable Quote
“Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb”

Articles

 * 2014, The Unbreakable Laura Hillenbrand The New York Times By: Wil S. Hylton "Since 1987, Hillenbrand has been sick with chronic fatigue syndrome, which has mostly confined her indoors for the last quarter century."


 * 2011, "An Author Escapes From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" "The New York Times" By: Tara Parker-Pope


 * 2010, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Celebrated Author's Untold Tale in Elle magazine by Aaron Gell.


 * 2010, Laura Hillenbrand releases new book while fighting chronic fatigue syndrome The Washington Post By: Monica Hesse. "Then there are the more recent wins. The time she managed to take an entire shower standing up. The time she and her husband, Borden Flanagan, drove to the alley at the end of their block so she could see something other than the cemetery behind their yard, and the time, a few weeks later, that they drove all the way to Starbucks. Sat in the parking lot. Drove home."


 * 2003, 'A Sudden Illness,' by Laura Hillenbrand, The New Yorker, Jul 7, 2003 issue, "Personal history about the writer’s experience with chronic fatigue syndrome."

Talks & Interviews

 * 2014 'Unbroken' author's personal story of courage and resilience, Fox News Sunday, report by: James Rosen


 * 2003 The Diane Rehm Show - NPR, July 3, 2003 with Laura Hillenbrand

HHS/CFSAC

 * Public Testimony May 2013 by Reverend Bernard Hillenbrand, Laura Hillenbrand's father

Online Presence

 * Facebook
 * Amazon.com
 * Website