Lauren Manning

Lauren Manning (born 1961) is a survivor of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center. Her long recovery from massive burn injury was documented in a book authored by her husband, Greg Manning, entitled Love, Greg & Lauren, published in 2002. The title was taken from the signature Manning used when sending emails to family and friends in the immediate aftermath of the terror attack. His emails made up the text of the book.

Lauren Manning was born and raised in New Jersey and lived in Europe as a child.. In 1993, she became a senior vice president and partner at Cantor Fitzgerald, an investment bank which had several floors of offices in the World Trade Center, and which lost 658 employees when the buildings were destroyed. Manning had just entered the North Tower when it was hit by the aircraft. A wave of burning jet fuel exploded from one of the elevator shafts, enveloping Manning and setting her aflame. She ran to the street where she was extinguished by a bystander and loaded onto one of the first ambulances on the scene.