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Doris May Lessing CH OMG ( née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925.
Doris Lessing (born October 22, 1919, Kermānshāh, Persia [now Iran]—died November 17, 2013, London, England) was a British writer whose novels and short stories are largely concerned with people involved in the social and political upheavals of the 20th century.
When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, it seemed that, at last, the highest literary honour was being placed on a woman who has surveyed and judged mankind in the latter half of the 20th century like no other writer.
Nov 17, 2013 · Doris Lessing. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007. Born: 22 October 1919, Kermanshah, Persia (now Iran) Died: 17 November 2013, London, United Kingdom. Residence at the time of the award: United Kingdom.
Nov 17, 2013 · Doris Lessing, the uninhibited and outspoken novelist who won the 2007 Nobel Prize for a lifetime of writing that shattered convention, both social and artistic, died on Sunday at her home...
Biography. From the pamphlet: A Reader's Guide to The Golden Notebook & Under My Skin, HarperPerennial, 1995. Doris Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in Persia (now Iran) on October 22, 1919. Both of her parents were British: her father, who had been crippled in World War I, was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia; her mother had been a nurse.
Oct 11, 2007 · Doris Lessing, the Persian-born, Rhodesian-raised and London-residing novelist whose deeply autobiographical writing has swept across continents and reflects her engagement with the social and...
How infinitely adaptable we all are. I hated the life, the society – one hundred thousand whites commanded half a million blacks in old Southern Rhodesia. I left that marriage, married a German refugee, Gottfried Lessing, had another child.
Nov 21, 2013 · First Person: Admiring Doris Lessing's Decision to Forgo an Ordinary, Decent Life. The Nobel Prize-winning author was a trailblazer and iconoclast in literature and in life. By Alexandra...
The complete Doris Lessing, including a biography, an extensive detailed bibliography, a catalog of her books, reprinted articles, audio and portraits throughout the years.