Hillenbrand, who lives in Oregon, is the best-selling author of “Seabiscuit: An American Legend” and “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption.” ...

Laura Hillenbrand was introduced to horses, and to the Seabiscuit legend, in her childhood. She grew up in Bethesda, but her father owned a farm in Sharpsburg, Md., where she learned to ride by ...

Ideally, you wouldn't just find Laura Hillenbrand's "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" in bookstores. It would be next to Frank Sinatra or Nat King Cole or Lee Wiley CDs as well -- anywhere you'd go ...

Author Laura Hillenbrand recalls fondly watching her first Kentucky Derby, cheering in front of a television in her Bethesda home as a 3-year old filly named Genuine Risk tore around the racetrack ...

Seabiscuit Stud Barn Recognized as Historic. On Jan. 14, 2014 Seabiscuit's stud barn, located at Ridgewood Ranch in Willits, Calif., officially was listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic ...

Laura Hillenbrand found Seabiscuit through a tattered paperback book that she loved as a child. “I read it so much all the pages fell out,” said Hillenbrand, on the phone ...

Long before Laura Hillenbrand was the highly praised author of Seabiscuit: An American Legend, a nonfiction Random House book that's being turned into a movie by Universal Studios, she had dreams ...

Seabiscuit, the rags-to-riches Thoroughbred hero of the 1930s, and Laura Hillenbrand, the author who wrote the best-selling book detailing the life of the horse and his connections, were featured ...

The second book by Laura Hillenbrand, the author of “Seabiscuit,” is to be published in November, Random House announced on Monday.The book, “Unbroken,” is the story of Louis Zamperini, a ...