Unbroken

[Linda Anderson]

There is a terrific article in the New York Times on Laura Hillanbrand, the author of Unbroken. She has suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome for many years and still managed to write Unbroken as well as the wonderful Seabiscuit. "Through a combination of new drugs and physical therapy, Hillenbrand has suppressed many of the worst symptoms, but she is still plagued by chronic vertigo."

Interestingly, a commentator named Robert Hughes mentions Lincoln.

"I was thrilled to see that the amazingly gifted Laura Hillenbrand loves to listen to audiobooks. It's true: they give you a new appreciation of style, a new insight to rhythm and music of sentences. Lincoln, our finest writer-president, read everything aloud, even the newspaper. It was a key to understanding how the peculiar "Lincoln music" developed. The written word is the spoken word and writers who realize this produce something marvelous. And Laura Hillenbrand's marvelous prose is a marvelous gift to us."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazi...dule=photo

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