To Cross the Finish Line With 'Seabiscuit' Despite debilitating chronic fatigue syndrome, Laura Hillenbrand wrote a book about the racehorse Seabiscuit. A list of upcoming fiction and nonfiction books. Used books and where to find them. The little room on the second floor of the Glover Park row house is organized to perfection, though this is something that an outsider would not understand. Scrapbooks are piled on the floor, within easy reach.
Papers clutter the desk.
She almost never went out. Some days, she didn't even go downstairs. It is a story about horse racing, yes, but it is also a tale of the Depression, and of a ragtag group of underdogs who enthralled a nation. Seabiscuit, as Hillenbrand writes, was such a phenomenon in his day that his name was mentioned in more newspaper articles in 1938 than Franklin Roosevelt's or Hitler's. His epic battle that year against War Admiral at Pimlico stands as perhaps the greatest horse race in history.