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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE SWEETEST DREAM: A Novel, by Doris Lessing. HarperCollins: 480 pp., $26.95. “The Sweetest Dream,” Doris Lessing’s 50th book and 24th novel, spans two continents and three decades, revisiting places ...

Arguably the grande dame of English letters—the list of her published works comes to 60-plus—Lessing has always been outspoken about literature, politics and social issues. The 65 essays and book ...

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 ...

That was typical of the independent - and often irascible - author who died Sunday after a long career that included "The Golden Notebook," a 1962 novel that made her an icon of the women's movement.