From her obituaries, and the serious critical assessments of her work, I hardly recognize the Doris Lessing I knew. I don’t fault the obit writers (I used to be one) or critics and admirers for ...

NEW: HarperCollins UK CEO says Lessing had "a fierce intellect and a warm heart" Lessing "passed away peacefully" at her London home, publisher says "I was born to write," Lessing said Lessing won the ...

When Doris Lessing learned she had been chosen as the 2007 Nobel laureate in literature, her response was something less than joyous. “I can’t say I’m overwhelmed with surprise,” she told reporters ...

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AS SHE climbed slowly out of the taxi with her shopping, her grey bun coming down as usual, Doris Lessing noticed that the front garden was full of photographers. They told her she had won the 2007 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Doris Lessing, the uninhibited and outspoken novelist who was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for a lifetime of writing that shattered convention, both social and artistic, died Sunday at her ...

Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing, who died this week at 94, is best known, and appropriately so, as a ground-breaking feminist writer. As the L.A. Times’ Kim Murphy wrote in Lessing’s obituary ...

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Lessing explored topics ranging from feminism to the British Empire and science fiction She won the Nobel Prize in 2007 She is best known for %27The Golden Notebook ...

Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning author, died Sunday morning according her publisher, Harper Collins. Lessing, who produced 55 works, including poetry, operas and short stories, was 94 years old ...