![]() ![]() She’s a Seabiscuit story herself: an underdog author, coming from nowhere and becoming a true champion.” I loved every minute of working with her. ![]() “I was really disappointed by the whole South Korea hoax ,” Karp continues, “because I would really love to clone Laura. It sold six million copies in the United States alone and has been translated into 15 languages. I remember in a sales conference one of our reps stood up and said, ‘We’re going to sell a million copies,’ and I’d never heard anyone say that before.” Everyone at Random House who read the manuscript fell in love with it. I wasn’t the only one who had this reaction. “It was an extraordinarily rich human portrait that went beyond the Seabiscuit horse-racing story to encapsulate something far more historically powerful. “It was the best manuscript that has ever been submitted to me,” says Jonathan Karp, her editor at Random House, who now works at Warner Books. 1 spot for 42 weeks and stayed on the list for more than 120 weeks. Between hardcover and paperback sales, Seabiscuit held the No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list before a single ad appeared. The three loves in Laura’s life-horses, history and words-would eventually grow together to produce Seabiscuit, the underdog book about an underdog horse that, against all conventional wisdom about sports books in general and racing stories in particular, pushed its way to No. ![]()
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