![]() ![]() ![]() 2001, "Despite Illness, Author Pushed to the Finish Line" by Jennifer Frey of the Washington Post."Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb." Articles So much of my own autobiography would be about my health, and I don’t know if I want to spend my professional life thinking about that. At the same time, when asked in a 2011 The New York Times interview whether she would ever write an autobiography, she said: "I have to spend so much time being vigilant on my body and worrying about my body and suffering. She is open about her illness, writing "A Sudden Illness," a poignant 2003 essay in the The New Yorker about the onset and her long confinement as she slowly recovered. Since she was 19 years old, Hillenbrand has lived with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/ CFS). Both books were adapted into acclaimed movies. ![]() Laura Hillenbrand is author of two award-winning, best-selling books: Seabiscuit: An American Legend, about a champion race horse who became a national legend during the Great Depression, and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, about a promising track Olympian who suffered years as a WWII POW in Japan. ![]()
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