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.
Demonstrated that meticulously researched narrative non-fiction can reach the same commercial heights as popular fiction — Unbroken selling 10M+ copies — and set the standard for character-driven historical narrative that makes the reader feel they are present in the story.
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