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No one other than Lessing is capable of writing about African landscapes, outer space, Sufism, nuclear holocaust, Spanish rural poverty, a Hampstead political family, and cats, all within the same career. Lessing will always be known as the writer of The Golden Notebook.
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. In 1925, lured by the promise of getting rich through maize farming, the family ...
Oct 8, 2019 · Credit: Doris Lessing Archives at the University of East Anglia. In The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, Lessing examines human behaviour in the face of a brutal ice age. The...
May 25, 2023 · One of the most important writers of the 20th century, Doris Lessing wrote over 70 works, covering a huge range of themes and styles, including three novels that were nominated for a Booker Prize. Here, we select some of her best writing. Written by Gazelle Mba. Published May 25, 2023.
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...
Doris Lessing (Author of The Golden Notebook) Discover new books on Goodreads. See if your friends have read any of Doris Lessing's books. Join Goodreads. more photos (4) Doris Lessing’s Followers (2,803) Born. in Kermanshah, Iran. October 22, 1919. Died. November 17, 2013. Website. http://www.dorislessing.org. Genre. Fiction. Influences.
Nov 17, 2013 · Nobel author Doris Lessing dies at 94. By DANICA KIRKA. Updated 10:50 AM PDT, November 17, 2013. 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 retorted “Oh Christ! ... I couldn’t care less.”
