Author Doris Lessing died Sunday at the age of 94. Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature for a life's work which included around 40... How Writer Doris Lessing Didn't Want To Be Remembered ...

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British writer Doris Lessing was announced the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm Thursday. Just several weeks short of age 88, she is the oldest writer to receive the literature ...

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 ...

Ms. Lessing was an uninhibited and outspoken novelist who produced dozens of novels, short stories, essays and poems, embarking on dizzying and at times stultifying literary experiments. By Helen T.

"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 ...

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 ...

The Nobel Prize judges said that "with skepticism, fire and visionary power," Lessing "subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny." Above, Lessing addresses the media outside her home in north ...

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 ...

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.