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.

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 won the Nobel Prize for literature last week, my first thought was: What a victory for science fiction! In 1979, three decades after her first novel, “The Grass Is Singing,” and 17 ...

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, who famously told reporters she 'couldn't care less' about winning the Nobel Prize, died November 17 at the age of 94. (Elke Wetzig / Wikimedia Commons) Lessing’s own complexity and ...

En el centenario de su nacimiento, Doris Lessing (1919-2013) sigue siendo una escritora necesaria para analizar y comprender la complejidad de nuestro presente. Su legado literario refleja los ...

"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 ...

Nobel Prize-winning writer Doris Lessing was under surveillance for more than 20 years during her youth by British spies who took a dim view of her Communist beliefs and anti-racist activism, ...

Last week, author Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The New York Times used the occasion of this award to point out the governments of Rhodesia and South Africa considered ...

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Doris Lessing responded to the contradictions of our time by facing them with unmatched courage. Doris Lessing at her home in north London in 2007. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) By signing up, you ...