Haruki Murakami

Websitehttps://www.harukimurakami.com/author In 1978 Murakami was in the bleachers of Jingu Stadium watching a baseball game between the Yakult Swallows and the Hiroshima Carp when Dave Hilton an American came to bat. According to an oftrepeated story in the instant that he hit a double Murakami suddenly realized that he could write a novel. He went home and began writing that night.