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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 11, 2007 · 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...
Nov 17, 2013 · 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...
The complete Doris Lessing, including a biography, an extensive detailed bibliography, a catalog of her books, reprinted articles, audio and portraits throughout the years.
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...
Nov 17, 2013 · Sun 17 Nov 2013 10.47 EST. Doris Lessing, who has died aged 94, was one of the major fiction writers of the second half of the 20th century and one of the most vividly representative literary...
