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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 at the age of eighty-eight. To date, she is still the oldest recipient of this prize, and she is one of only seventeen women to have received it ...

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.