On this day in literature
November 15
In literary history
- 1959Four members of the Clutter family were murdered in their farmhouse at Holcomb, Kansas, in the early hours. Truman Capote read a few paragraphs about it in a newspaper, went out to Kansas, and gave the next six years of his life to it.
Writers born on November 15
- William Hope Hodgson (1877),
- J.G. Ballard (1930)