November 1

In literary history

• 1895Thomas Hardy published Jude the Obscure, which a bishop publicly burned and critics called 'Jude the Obscene.' Hardy was so stung he wrote no more novels, turning to poetry for the remaining thirty-three years of his life.

Writers born on November 1

• Stephen Crane (1871),
• Hermann Broch (1886)

The Daily Canon for November 1

Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (1955).