London, Nov 17 (EFE).London, Nov 17 (EFE). — British writer Doris Lessing, hailed as one of the most influential writers of the past century, died on Sunday, her family said. She was 94. The author of ...

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 ...

Doris Lessing, who wrote the landmark 1962 novel The Golden Notebook and won the Nobel Prize, has died aged 94. The British author died peacefully at her London home in the early hours today, a ...

There’s a tidbit deep in the Times archive that reminds us of just what a brilliant artist and provocateur Doris Lessing could be. Lessing died Sunday at the age of 94. Back in 1984, she was already ...

In recent years the life of cultivated people has been marked by a fierce attachment to "personal values." I put the phrase in quote marks to point toward something more problematic than the usual web ...

LONDON — 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 retorted ...

Doris Lessing is dead, finally dead at age 94. When I heard the news I thought right away of the moment when Jane Eyre is being terrified into obedience by the loathsome Mr. Brocklehurst. “Should you ...

THE RELATIONSHIP between the writer and an academic enamored of the writer is a very dangerous one. The brashness brought on by a doctoral degree can lead scholars to believe they know the writer's ...

Just shy of her 89th birthday, English writer Doris Lessing has attracted many labels in the past six decades: feminist, Communist, activist, social commentator and — as of last year — Nobel laureate.

In a short explanation included in her latest book, Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing notes that "even alert offspring or children may miss gold" when writing about their parents. But in Alfred And ...