Author Doris Lessing died Sunday at the age of 94. Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature for a life's work which included around 40... How Writer Doris Lessing Didn't Want To Be Remembered ...

Patrick French is dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and professor for the public understanding of the humanities at Ahmedabad University in India. He is the authorized biographer of Doris ...

The Nobel Prize judges said that "with skepticism, fire and visionary power," Lessing "subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny." Above, Lessing addresses the media outside her home in north ...

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 is one of my favorite authors of all time, and I’ve raved about her work before. So it’s exciting to see people in the science fiction world paying ...

That was typical of the independent - and often irascible - author who died Sunday after a long career that included "The Golden Notebook," a 1962 novel that made her an icon of the women's movement.

"One has to remind [publishers] that what authors need is quiet—all writers need to be quiet; that we need in fact to be rather bored, we need to be unstimulated." -- Doris Lessing In this episode of ...

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 ...

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During the 1970s, at the height of the feminist movement, Doris Lessing's novel The Golden Notebook became required reading for women's studies students. But despite writing one of the great feminist ...