Doris Lessing was born Doris May Taylor in Persia (now Iran) on October 22 1919. Lessing left home when she was 15 and took her first job as a nursemaid. Her employer gave her sociology and politics ...

Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing was no ivory tower writer and no detached observer of local or global events. She was a perceptive social critic and an engaged intellectual. She dared to defy the ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Pankaj Mishra joins Adam Shatz to discuss The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing’s formally brilliant and startlingly ...

Doris Lessing, a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and essayist whose deeply autobiographical books and piercing social commentary made her one of the most significant and wide-ranging writers since World ...

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.

Doris Lessing was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and feminist flag-bearer whose controversial bestsellers stretched the boundaries of realist fiction. Lessing, who has died aged 94, was one of the ...

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 ...