When Hillenbrand set out to write about Seabiscuit’s story, she initially intended for it to be an article for a magazine, but it turned into something much bigger. She became entranced in the story, researching and writing for years, pushing through the miserableness she felt because of her Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Hillenbrand, 2003). The lengths she went to in order to provide a factual, well-written account of the horse, and the men who stood beside him, proves how important this story was to her. When Hillenbrand’s illness seemed to completely take over her life, she found something that gave her the strength to do more than just sit around and wait for the disease to get better or worse. She made it her mission to tell the story of Seabiscuit,
