Laura Hillenbrand loves sports. Her debut book, 'Seabiscuit,' chronicled the career of the storied racehorse, and her second book, '"Unbroken," focuses on the harrowing journey of Olympic sprinter and ...
Louis Zamperini lived an impossible, remarkable life. And Laura Hillenbrand helped bring it to a wide audience with “Unbroken,” the biography that was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner and ...
Laura Hillenbrand’s new book, “Unbroken,” is a biography of Louis Zamperini, who represented the United States in the 5,000 meters at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. A candidate to be the first man to run a ...
recordonline: Local book club review: BIO Book Club, 'Unbroken' by Laura Hillenbrand
"Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House Publishing Group, hardcover, 2010) This is the story of Louis Zamperini. As a child he was ...
Laura Hillenbrand is shaping up to be the Woody Guthrie of contemporary narrative historians. It's not just that she has an affinity for singing the ballads of dark horses, who through tenacity, luck ...
Laura Hillenbrand, author of "Seabiscuit," has found another hero in Zamperini. A delinquent growing up in suburban Los Angeles, Zamperini had a gift for speed that came in handy for fleeing angry ...
Join best-selling author Laura Hillenbrand (whose last book, Seabiscuit, became an international sensation) and NPR Books for a monthlong event — a book-club-meets-social-media experiment. Last month, ...
As I read Laura Hillenbrand’s stirring and triumphant account of the harrowing experiences of American Olympic runner and World War II POW Louis Zamperini, I thought of the double load that the ...