Not long after the publication of In Cold Blood, the book was adapted into film. Here, Truman Capote (left) stands beside Scott Wilson (center) and Robert Blake, the actors who played convicted killers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, respectively. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Shakespeare's handwriting may offer clues to a mysterious passage in Thomas Kyd's Spanish Tragedy. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Chilean poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda in Stockholm with his wife Matilda after he received the Nobel Prize for literature. Keystone/Getty Images hide caption