On this day in literature
November 7
In literary history
- 1917The Bolsheviks took Petrograd. Forty years later the Soviet editors refused Doctor Zhivago for its rejection of socialist realism, the manuscript was smuggled to an Italian publisher, and Pasternak was made to renounce the Nobel Prize with the KGB around his dacha.
Writers born on November 7
- Albert Camus (1913)