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.

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, the novelist who for six decades has been a fierce and wide-ranging chronicler of the rifts between men and women, black and white, and the self and society, has won the 2007 Nobel ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Novelist Doris Lessing, who tackled race, ideology, gender politics and the workings of the psyche in a prolific and often iconoclastic career, has died at the age of 94, her ...

Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose novel “Adore” was adapted as a Naomi Watts starter this year, has died in London. She was 94. Her publisher, HarperCollins, said the author of more ...

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Doris Lessing, who died on November 17, 2013 at age 94, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature for her prolific writings ranging from autobiography to what she called “space fiction.” Sometimes ...

Celebrated author Doris Lessing has bequeathed her entire book collection to the city library in Harare, it’s been reported. The winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, who died in November 2013, ...

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