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Date of birth: 1967
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
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" And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well. "

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" Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. "

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" But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story. "

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" For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write. "

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" Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went. "

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" Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it. "

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" I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project. "

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" I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything. "

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" I don't know what I'll do as an encore. I will search for a story that grabs me as this one did, and I'll dig in again. "

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" I got very lucky with finding an agent. My boyfriend mentioned my agent search to one of his grad school colleagues, who told him that someone he knew at Stanford had become an agent. He gave me her contact info, and I sent a query, which included an article I had written on Seabiscuit. "

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" I had been writing professionally since 1988. "

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" I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas. "

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" I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it. "

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" I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book. "

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" I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do. "

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