The novelist Doris Lessing, who tackled race, ideology, gender politics and the workings of the psyche in a prolific and often iconoclastic career, died in London on Sunday at the age of 94, her ...

There are many reasons to praise that remarkable writer, Doris Lessing, who died recently, aged 94 – who, by the way, smoked heavily for most of her long life. She won the Nobel Prize for literature, ...

Lara Feigel explores the life of writer Doris Lessing on the tenth anniversary of her death through the lens of her most pioneering work, The Golden Notebook. Show more On awarding the writer Doris ...

Doris Lessing, who has died 94, was an inspirational novelist, playwright, memoirist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her writing was always hard to label and was influenced by, among ...

A look at the life of Doris Lessing, the controversial novelist whose themes ranged from social justice to feminism and science fiction, who has died at the age of 94. Doris Lessing incurred the wrath ...

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 was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. When she won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007, she was 88 years old — making her the oldest winner in the award's ...

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.

Over a long life–she was 94 when she died on Nov. 17–Lessing produced dozens of novels, stories and essays–and one explosive device. It was her great and intricate second novel, The Golden Notebook, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Novelist Doris Lessing, too ill to attend an award ceremony last year, received the Nobel prize for literature on Wednesday saying there was no higher accolade for a writer except, ...

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.

“I have suffered a misfortune, she told herself; I haven’t committed a crime.” Harriet and David are a picture of marital bliss and a nightmare for population control fanatics. The young couple’s ...