Lauren Manning

Lauren Manning
Residence New York City
Nationality American
Occupation Author, speaker, businessperson, entrepreneur
Years active 1993-present
Organization YouBoard Inc.
Notable work Unmeasured Strength (2011)
Board member of Sanctuary for Families, YouBoard Inc.
Spouse(s) Greg Manning
Website LaurenManning.com
YouBoard.net

Lauren Manning (born 1961) is an American author, entrepreneur, and businesswoman. One of the most severely injured survivors of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks,[1] she spent over six months in the hospital during her initial recovery from 82.5% total body burn injuries.[2] Her injuries and recovery were widely documented by national and international press, including extensively by the New York Times.[3] Manning's story has been the subject of two New York Times bestselling books,[4][5] including Manning's memoir Unmeasured Strength, which was published in 2011 by Henry Holt and Company.[6] Manning described it to TIME as "an homage to all that are gone, who in many ways drove me [even more] toward life."[7]

Since the publication of her book, Manning's story has continued to receive widespread press coverage, and in 2013 President Barack Obama went so far as to cite Manning as a personification of American resilience.[8] Manning is currently involved with a number of businesses and non-profit organizations, including iPads for Soldiers[9] and Sanctuary for Families.[9] Manning is co-founder and chief strategist of YouBoard Inc,[9][10] and a managing director at the venture capital firm Golden Seeds.[10] She is a member of the board of directors of Sanctuary for Families, a member of the advisory board for Glamour’s Woman of the Year, and a member of the advisory council to iPads for Soldiers.[11]

Biography

Early life and career

Lauren Pritchard Manning was born in 1961[12] in Essex County, New Jersey.[5][1][13] She began her career at Lehman Brothers in 1985, and in 1995[5] she became a partner at Cantor Fitzgerald,[1] a New York City-based bond-trading firm.[14] In 2000 she was appointed managing director[9] of its global market data[1] division.[9]

Surviving 9/11 attacks (2001)

On September 11, 2001, Manning left her West Village home[14] and headed for the World Trade Center's North Tower, where she was a senior executive at Cantor Fitzgerald[15] with an office on the 105th floor.[3][16] As she entered through the glass doors of the North Tower’s West Street entrance, the first jet was crashed into the 91st floor, cutting through elevator shafts that ran the full height of the building and giving the explosive fires a direct path to the first floor lobby.[5] Moments later, as she turned towards the elevators that would take her up to her office,[14] a wall of fire from the jet fuel explosion blasted from one of the elevator shafts, enveloping Manning and setting her aflame.[1] Manning fought the back draft and pushed out through the building doors and onto the sidewalk outside.[16] She ran across the six lanes of West Street before stopping to drop and roll on a strip of grass to extinguish the flames, where she was assisted by a good Samaritan.[5]

Manning remained conscious despite her injuries and watched as the second plane was crashed into the South Tower.[12][3] Having been at the World Trade Center during the 1993 bombing, Manning recognized that this was another terrorist attack. She recollects that she "made the decision in those moments to live"[5] after thinking of her ten-month old son.[14] She was forced to re-cross the street to board an ambulance, which had pulled up to the burning building approximately 40 minutes after the attacks began.[3] The ambulance did not depart until approximately ten minutes before South Tower collapsed.[5] Manning had suffered an 82.5 percent total body surface area (TBSA) burn,[2] with 75 percent of those burns third degree.[5]

Recovery (2001-2002)

Initially Manning was taken to the intensive care unit at St. Vincent's Hospital.[6][16] She remained conscious until 2 pm, when she was sedated at the instruction of two burn nurses who had volunteered off the street to assist in the care of patients. At 5 pm,[5] Manning was transferred to the William Randolph Hearst Burn Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.[6] Manning's 82.5% TBSA burn[14] made her among the most injured of the survivors,[5] and staff estimated her chance of survival at about 10[17][13] to 15 percent upon arrival,[18] a number which fell to single digits.[4]

She would remain sedated in a medically induced coma for almost two months,[19] during which she suffered lung collapses, partial amputations, and a near-lethal infection.[5] She was still in critical condition when she was awakened towards the end October, 2001.[5] After standing up and taking her first steps and a reunion with her son over two months after the attacks,[5] it was only by mid-November that Manning learned that both Trade Center towers had collapsed,[5] and that 658 of her colleagues at Cantor Fitzgerald had been killed.[3][7][20] Manning was discharged from Weill Cornell on December 12, 2001,[19] and transferred to the Burke Rehabilitation Hospital in White Plains, New York for three months of[6] intensive occupational and physical therapy.[19] Doctors noted to the press that Manning's recovery was unexpected and notable given the severity of her injuries, attributing much of the credit to Manning's positive attitude towards rehabilitation[17][15][21] and her general good health.[22] Following her return home on March 12, 2002, Manning continued working through a full-time, six-days a week[21][23] schedule of strenuous physical rehabilitation over 18 months.[15]

News coverage and spread of story (2001-2002)

While she was still sedated, her husband Greg began emailing daily status updates to friends and family,[3] and she was soon receiving get-well cards from around the world.[6] On March 15, 2002, she returned to her home on Perry Street in Manhattan.[19][7] On September 2002 she spoke at the private memorial service held by Cantor Fitzgerald on the one-year anniversary of the attacks,[6] with the Associated Press noting she was seen as "a symbol of resilience," and calling her words and the resultant standing ovation the most moving moment of the event.[24] In the fall of 2002 Manning was the keynote speaker for the annual New York State Occupational Therapy Association (NYSOTA) convention,[19] with the American Occupational Therapy Association giving her a national award.[9] In 2002 she received an Anti-Defamation League “Without Fear” award[19] at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.,[9] and in November 2002, she was named one of several "Women of the Year" by Glamour Magazine,[9][3] with the award presented by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.[19] Her husband's book entitled Love, Greg & Lauren: A Husband's Day-by-Day Account of His Wife's Remarkable Recovery,[12] published in 2002 by Random House,[1] became a New York Times bestseller[9] and was published in seven languages.[25]

Biography Magazine named her one of "15 Extraordinary Women of 2003" and around this time she was named an honoree of the Women’s Bond Club.[9] Manning did a broadcast public service message in February 2003 for Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.[26] In June 2004 Manning was one of those chosen to carry the Olympic flame for the New York leg of the Athens 2004 Olympic Torch Relay,[9] and her leg of the relay was featured on the front page of the New York Times.[27][3][19] She and her husband were both awarded the Norman Vincent Peale Award for Positive Thinking in 2004[3] from the Blanton Peale Institute.[9] In 2005, CNN selected her as "one of the most intriguing newsmakers of the past 25 years."[9] She was the focus of Emmy Award-nominated and Gracie Allen Award-winning coverage by NBC's The Today Show,[9] as well as being featured by other national and global news media, including international publications such as The Sunday Times[2] and Readers Digest.[21] She was also interviewed about her experiences and opinions on television shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show, where Winfrey pronounced her "an American hero,"[28] and CNN’s Larry King Live.[9] On October 17, 2011, The New York Times featured her story on the front page, with Manning labeled a "symbol of hope."[3]

Unmeasured Strength (2011)

As her story gained further exposure on media outlets such as The Oprah Winfrey Show and Today Show among others, Manning recollects that "I was asked by thousands of people if I was going to write a book. A lot of them had shared in my story, and in ways I don't quite understand, they had found it helpful."[3] In January 2011, the publisher Henry Holt and Co. announced it had signed a book deal with Manning to release her story.[29] According to Manning in a statement, "for years I've been privileged to receive words of thanks and encouragement from people all over the world, often simply asking how I'm doing. I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to share my story in the hope it will continue to resonate with people facing challenges in their own lives."[29]

Manning's memoir of 9/11 and her recovery, Unmeasured Strength, was published in 2011 by Henry Holt and Company.[6][30] It was named a New York Times bestseller. An updated edition was published in paperback in 2012 by Griffen St. Martin.[9] Manning described it to TIME as "an homage to all that are gone, who in many ways drove me [even more] toward life."[7] A portion of proceeds from Unmeasured Strength as well as from Greg Manning's Love, Greg and Lauren continue to support several non-profit organizations, including Sanctuary for Families, iPads for Soldiers,[9] and the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund.[9][1] Excerpts from Manning's memoir were published in Vogue on August 30, 2011,[6] in USA Today on August 29, 2011,[3] and she appeared on Today on September 7, 2012.[31] Manning's memoirs were also referenced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton[9] in remarks at John Jay School of Criminal Justice, New York, September 9, 2011. In relation to 9/11, Clinton said, “Lauren Manning has been very much front and center in my mind… Lauren writes that we may all in fact, we all will be touched by adversity as we go on our life’s journey, but we can refuse to be trapped by it.”[32]

Recent years (2012-2015)

On May 23, 2013, President Barack Obama cited Manning as a personification of American resilience: "In just these last few years as President, I have watched the American people bounce back from... events [that] were heartbreaking... I think of Lauren Manning, the 9/11 survivor who had severe burns over 80 percent of her body, who said, ‘That’s my reality. I put a Band-Aid on it, literally, and I move on.’"[8]

External video
"Lauren Manning's Incredible Recovery from 9/11 Burn Injuries" segment with Katie Couric, published June 21, 2013 on Youtube

Involved with a number of businesses and non-profit organizations, Manning is currently on the board of directors for Sanctuary for Families and the Advisory Council of iPads for Soldiers.[9] She is co-founder and chief strategist of YouBoard Inc.,[10] which "offers a patent-pending integration of e-commerce, social media, and online privacy management."[9] She is also a managing director at Golden Seeds, an early-stage investment firm.[10]

Manning makes periodic appearances at major companies, universities, and nonprofit organizations as a keynote speaker.[9] Since her recovery, she appeared on shows such as The Oprah Winfrey Show,[28] NBC's The Today Show, [9] CNN’s Larry King Live,[9][19][3][6] PBS,[33] The Early Show, Piers Morgan Live, NPR, CNN, CBS, ABC, and FOX.[34] CNN named her as "one of the most intriguing newsmakers of the past 25 years."[9] Two extended segments featuring her story on the Today Show went on to win a Gracie Allen Award and were nominated for an Emmy Award.[9] In a January 2014 interview on The Kelly File, Manning argued against the ongoing publication of the manifesto written by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, which had recently been deemed eligible for release by an American military judge.[35]

Personal life

Lauren Manning and her husband Greg along with their two children[19][3][6] live in Manhattan.[1]

Publishing history

Year Release title Publisher ISBN Role
2002 Love, Greg and Lauren Bantam/Random House (March 5, 2002) ISBN 0553802976 Dedicatee[4]
2011 Unmeasured Strength Henry Holt and Co. (August 30, 2011) ISBN 0805094636 Author[5]

Filmography

Incomplete list of film credits for Lauren Manning[34]
Year Release title Format Producer Notes, role
2004 Nine Innings from Ground Zero TV documentary HBO Sports Dedicatee
2011 The Tavis Smiley Show TV series PBS Herself on 9/11/2011 episode
2011 Piers Morgan Tonight TV series CNN Herself on 9/11/2011 episode
2014 The Kelly File TV series Fox News Herself on 1/15/2014 episode

Further reading

Books
Articles and video interviews

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Hartocollis, Anemona (September 9, 2008). "Maimed on 9/11, Trying to Be Whole Again". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  2. 1 2 3 Allen-Mills, Tony (September 11, 2011). "Eaten by flames but refusing to surrender". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Minzesheimer, Bob (August 29, 2011). "Survivor Lauren Manning finds 'new normal' after 9/11". USA Today. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  4. 1 2 3 Manning, Greg (2002). Love, Greg and Lauren: A Husband's Day-by-Day Account of His Wife's Remarkable Recovery. New York: Bantam ISBN 0-553-80297-6
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Manning, Lauren (August 30, 2011). Unmeasured Strength. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 0805094636
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Manning, Lauren (August 30, 2011). "Lauren Manning: A Will to Live (Excerpted from Unmeasured Strength)". Vogue (Henry Holt and Company, LLC.). Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "After 9/11, One Survivor's Tales of a Miraculous Recovery - Interview". TIME. August 30, 2011. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  8. 1 2 Obama, Barak (May 23, 2013). "Obama’s Speech on Drone Policy". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 "About and Schedule". laurenmanning.com. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  10. 1 2 3 4 "Lauren Manning". Keppler Speakers. Retrieved 2014-07-06.
  11. ↑ "Lauren Manning About Me". National Association of Professional Women. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  12. 1 2 3 "Then & Now: Lauren Manning". CNN. June 19, 2005. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  13. 1 2 Zarroli, Jim (September 11, 2011). "After Burn Injuries, Sept. 11 Survivor Shows 'Strength'". NPR. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 Walter, Kathleen (September 9, 2011). "9/11 Survivor Manning: I Decided to Live for My Son". Newsmax. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  15. 1 2 3 Eaton, Leslie (September 9, 2003). "Pushing a Rock, Day After Day". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  16. 1 2 3 Adams Otis, Ginger (September 11, 2011). "Miracle tale from the towers: Lauren Manning". New York Post. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  17. 1 2 Eaton, Leslie (December 12, 2001). "A NATION CHALLENGED: THE INJURED; First, She Managed to Live; Now Comes the Harder Part". New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  18. ↑ Connelly, Sherryl (September 3, 2011). "Voices from then & now: Stories about 9/11 from the families that experienced the most". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  19. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "The diary of a 9/11 survivor: Lauren Manning". Metro. September 5, 2011. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  20. ↑ Eaton, Leslie (March 11, 2002). "A NATION CHALLENGED: SURVIVOR; 6 Months Later, Scarred but Very Alive". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  21. 1 2 3 Bruning, Fred (September 8, 2002). "9/11 ONE YEAR LATER / The Long Road To Recovery". Newsday. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  22. ↑ Precin, Pat. "Surviving 9/11: Impact and Experiences of Occupational Therapy Practitioners". New York: Haworth Press. ISBN 0789020661
  23. ↑ Eaton, Leslie (September 11, 2002). "LAUREN MANNING; After Months in a Coma, Quickly Walking and Laughing Again". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  24. ↑ "Devastated Firm Grieves, Looks Ahead". Los Angeles Times (Associated Press). September 12, 2002. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  25. ↑ "Writing about 9/11". Jacket2.org. July 7, 2007. Retrieved 2014-07-06.
  26. ↑ Takaki, Millie (February 7, 2003). "Munn Rabot Offers Meaningful Reality TV". shootonline.com. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  27. ↑ "Lauren Manning, who was severely burned in the World Trade Center attack, carried the Olympic torch on Central Park West, with her husband, Greg, beside her". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  28. 1 2 "Lauren Manning's Life Today - Video". Oprah.com. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  29. 1 2 "Sept. 11 burn survivor, Lauren Manning, has book deal". The Associated Press. January 10, 2011. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  30. ↑ Landro, Laura (August 30, 2011). "A 9/11 Survivor Tells Her Story". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  31. ↑ Manning, Lauren (September 7, 2011). "Rebuilding a life in the wake of September 11th". Today. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  32. ↑ Rodham Clinton, Hillary (September 9, 2011). "Smart Power Approach to Counterterrorism". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  33. ↑ "9/11 survivor Lauren Manning - Video". Travis Smiley (PBS). September 9, 2011. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  34. 1 2 "Lauren Manning Filmography". IMDB. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  35. ↑ "A 9/11 Survivor Tells Her Story". The Kelly File (Fox News). January 15, 2014. Retrieved 2016-02-27.

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