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Doris Lessing, bless her, tells stories about people rather than art, about experiences rather than boredom, about significant moments in a life, odd adjustments made, unexpected corners turned ...

In 1920s Rhodesia, leopards and snakes roamed the bush. Yet for 6-year-old Doris Lessing, this inhospitable environment offered a welcome refuge from her parents: Alfred, a soldier whose leg had been ...

Doris Lessing has written more than 20 novels, short stories, poetry, plays, two operas (with composer Philip Glass) non-fiction and two volumes of an autobiography Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Doris Lessing’s rebellion against middle-class values began in her early youth. Born Doris May Tayler in 1919 in ...

For nearly 60 years, Doris Lessing has been writing some of the most daring and important fiction in English. As she approaches her 88th birthday, she is still producing superb and fascinating work.

On October 11, 2007, Doris Lessing became the oldest person to win the Nobel Prize. In 2003, Bill Moyers talked with Lessing about life, politics and the process of writing.

Doris Lessing, who died on November 17, 2013 at age 94, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature for her prolific writings ranging from autobiography to what she called “space fiction.” Sometimes ...

Her publisher, HarperCollins says that the author of more than 50 works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, died peacefully early Sunday. By The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Doris Lessing, the Nobel ...

When Doris Lessing, the British-Zimbabwean novelist who died in 2013, sat down to write “The Golden Notebook” in the 1950s, she was responding to a feeling of defeat in leftist circles, one similar to ...

Ms. Lessing was an uninhibited and outspoken novelist who produced dozens of novels, short stories, essays and poems, embarking on dizzying and at times stultifying literary experiments. By Helen T.

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