‘The Most Spectacular Crime in American Literary History’

“Thankfully, few fictional representations are so offensive to their (reputed) models that actual violence ensues. The notable exception … took place 100 years ago this month when Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough expressed his supreme displeasure with what he believed was the depiction of his family in the novel The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig by pumping six bullets into its author.”