Kim Wickens grew up in Dallas, Texas, and practiced as a criminal defense lawyer in New Mexico for twenty years.She subsequently turned her attention to writing, which she studied at Kenyon College, and has devoted the last several years to researching this book. She lives with her husband and son in Lexington, Kentucky, where she trains in dressage with her three horses.
“Researched with breathtaking thoroughness and written with imagination and verve, Kim Wickens’s Lexington unearths a vivid portrait of America’s greatest stallion, the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, and the dramatic times in which they lived. . . . A fascinating account from start to finish.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of Horse “In this meticulously researched and skillfully drawn telling, Kim Wickens brings to vivid life the ‘forgotten horse’: Lexington. It defies belief that no book has ever been written on this near-blind, at times cantankerous bay Thoroughbred who left such an indelible mark on nineteenth-century horse racing. For his extraordinary stamina and speed in the era of four-mile heats and for the dizzying success of his progeny, Lexington was called ‘King of the Turf.’ Indeed. Long live the king.”—Lawrence Scanlan, author of The Horse God Built “A totally engrossing story of one of the greatest horses that ever lived . . . I loved it.”—Nacho Figueras, champion polo player and author of High Season