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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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, 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 ...

When Doris Lessing, the British-Zimbabwean novelist who died in 2013, sat down to write “The Golden Notebook” in the 1950s, she was responding to a feeling of defeat in leftist circles, one similar to ...

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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 ...

LONDON (AP) - Doris Lessing emerged from a black cab outside her home in London one day in 2007 and was confronted by a horde of reporters. When told she had won the Nobel Prize, she blinked and ...