Nonfiction· 2001· Nonfiction
Seabiscuit: An American Legend: it draws on 2 recorded sources.
Events, places, movements and ideas outside fiction that this work is recorded as drawing on.
Real world
Laura Hillenbrand's history of an undersized, ill-tempered racehorse who became a champion in the Depression, researched from racing records and told as much through the horse as through his owner, trainer and jockey.
Real world
The history of Seabiscuit's racing career in the 1930s, from the claiming races where he was overlooked to the 1938 match race against War Admiral, reconstructed from racing records and the press of the time.