3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American narrative non-fiction author whose Seabiscuit and Unbroken are two of the most commercially successful works of narrative non-fiction ever published — written while she herself suffers from debilitating chronic fatigue syndrome — making her both a storyteller of extraordinary resilience and a practitioner of it.
Alistair Urquhart's 2010 memoir of his WWII experience — falling of Singapore, Japanese POW camps, Death Railway, hellship sinking, Nagasaki atomic bomb aftermath — which presents the most extreme accumulation of survival ordeals in any single first-person account.
Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 narrative non-fiction biography of Louis Zamperini — Olympic runner, WWII bombardier, Pacific raft survivor, Japanese POW — which became one of the best-selling works of narrative non-fiction ever published.