March 15 in Fiction

Movie Back to the Future Part II (1989)

3/15/1973

In the alternate 1985 created by Biff Tannen using a stolen sports almanac, George McFly was shot and killed by Biff on March 15, 1973 — leaving Lorraine trapped in a forced marriage and Hill Valley under Biff's corrupt rule. This is the dark timeline Marty and Doc must unravel: the film's vision of what a single selfish act can do to an entire community.

Literature The Sellout (2015)

3/15  · Paul Beatty

March 15th in Dickens, California is Hood Day — the anniversary of the day the protagonist's father, a provocateur sociologist, was shot and killed by police at a traffic stop in a case of mistaken identity. The neighborhood marks it as a community holiday with the same deadpan irony that pervades Paul Beatty's novel: a day set aside to acknowledge a death the world has chosen to forget.