In Fiction
The battle was the subject of the 1987 John Sayles film Matewan. Terror of the Tug, a 2000 play by Jean Battlo, covers the violent events that occurred directly afterward.
Read more about this topic: Matewan Massacre
Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer’s role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)