When Doris Lessing, the British-Zimbabwean novelist who died in 2013, sat down to write “The Golden Notebook” in the 1950s, she was responding to a feeling of defeat in leftist circles, one similar to ...

Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose novel “Adore” was adapted as a Naomi Watts starter this year, has died in London. She was 94. Her publisher, HarperCollins, said the author of more ...

Close watchers of the Nobel Prize for Literature look at the selection process as a kind of geopolitical checkers match, as the Swedish Academy plucks major figures from the national literatures of ...

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden ” British writer Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her “skepticism, fire and visionary power” in dozens of works, ...

Over a long life–she was 94 when she died on Nov. 17–Lessing produced dozens of novels, stories and essays–and one explosive device. It was her great and intricate second novel, The Golden Notebook, ...

On November 10, a group of seven women will sit down and dive into The Golden Notebook, the 1962 Doris Lessing novel that still figures large in the feminist canon. Like book clubbers everywhere, the ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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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.