But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it." "I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project." "I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything." "I had been writing professionally since 1988." "I have vertigo. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went." "Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. I didn't do my homework so I could write." "Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well." "Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison." "But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story." "For me, being a writer was never a choice. "And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. She is a co-founder of Operation Iraqi Children. Hillenbrand is married to Borden Flanagan, a professor of Government at American University. She now lives in Washington, D.C, and rarely travels because of her condition. Her 1998 American Heritage article on the horse Seabiscuit won the Eclipse Award for Magazine Writing.īorn in Fairfax, Virginia, Hillenbrand studied at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, but was forced to leave before graduation when she contracted chronic fatigue syndrome, which she has struggled with ever since. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Equus magazine, American Heritage, The Blood-Horse, Thoroughbred Times, The Backstretch, Turf and Sport Digest, and many other publications. The book later became the basis of the 2003 movie Seabiscuit.
Laura Hillenbrand (born May 15, 1967) is the author of the acclaimed An American Legend, a non-fiction account of the career of the great racehorse Seabiscuit, for which she won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2001.
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