Talk:Laura Hillenbrand

photo of Laura Hillenbrand?
Can anyone find a photo of Laura Hillenbrand to use in the infobox for the article? --Prairieplant (talk) 13:01, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Less sarcasm please
Please avoid the sarcasm. The sentence is fine. She had a husband, now she has a boyfriend, that is normal information. She was in Washington D.C., now she is in Oregon. For 25 years she could not leave her home in DC, not even to reach the White House to see the premiere of the film of her first book. Then she tried a scheme of disciplined gradual increases, in the style of pacing not GET to use the technical terms, in tolerance of activity without evoking the crippling vertigo; a change from that physical state is factual and worth presenting. She is notable for her writing of two spectacular nonfiction books, and for writing them while desperately ill. Her essay in The New Yorker, cited in this article, is a clear description of how she did both things, endure the disease and write the books. Please put your other proposed changes on the Talk page before making them, to avoid an edit war. --Prairieplant (talk) 13:57, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * If the sentence were fine, it would not be contested. If you can write as well in the article as you can on the talkpage, then we're making progress. I don't need to parry with you about ill-used tabloidy language.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 13:59, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I added a quote from Hylton's article in the New York Times, where he described Hillenbrand as terrified when the disease first came upon her. The strong adjective you deleted was from that source. --Prairieplant (talk) 05:16, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

It seems to me like a lot of this medical and psychological information does not belong here.
In part because it reads as blogging and in part because it seems like it should remain more 'private'.

Do people need to know this much detail about her health? If so, why? Assuming they want to know it, does it REALLY belong on a Wikipedia page? It seems it should remain external to here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.254.152.32 (talk) 04:52, 1 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Yes, it is an essential part of her life, the disease that kept her confined to her bedroom or her house for decades. She could not see the premier of the movie made of her book, shown at the White House when she lived in Georgetown, which is a nearby neighborhood of the White House. Yet she wrote, and wrote with literary style, two books requiring deep research. The limitations imposed by the disease led her to her topics, in her view -- overcoming obstacles to a good life -- as she was trying to overcome the huge obstacle in her own life so she could write. She is not private about her health, as you see from the sources where she talks about it in interviews, and the prize-winning essay she wrote in The New Yorker about the onset of the disease and the disability it brought (A Sudden Illness). I restored what you deleted, and this is why. --Prairieplant (talk) 05:08, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Bookx
Are any new books in the works? 2601:88:8081:7A0:6109:31A9:DF49:6795 (talk) 18:30, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Slavery
Red as slave? 73.172.44.82 (talk) 01:38, 14 March 2023 (UTC)