In Stockholm, the Swedish Academy has chosen the British author Doris Lessing for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. Kevin Billinghurst is in the Swedish capital. The selection of Doris Lessing for a ...

Harriet, the protagonist of Doris Lessing’s 1988 novel, “The Fifth Child,” has a terrible feeling about her youngest son. Even in the womb, Ben’s movements seem to her less like signs of ...

Doris Lessing, photographed in 1990. Credit: Schiffer-Fuchs/ullstein bild via Getty In the 1920s, growing up on a poor farm in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) Doris Lessing received impromptu ...

Lessing was drawn to left-wing politics, but her restlessness as a person and an artist would dominate her life more than any ideology. She divorced and moved with her son in 1949 to London, where ...

Till lately, Lessing has been hardly better known in France than here. The “ Nathan ” was translated there by Friedel and Bonneville as early as 1783.

Lessing, he writes, "is making a continuum all her own somewhere between John Milton and L. Ron Hubbard." So was she praised and lampooned by the audience that once esteemed her.

When Lessing set out to tell the story of her parents in her final book, “Alfred and Emily,” published in 2008, she split it in two, pairing the real account of their miseries and privations ...

As someone who admires Lessing's work, I have sometimes found The Golden Notebook to be a hindrance when recommending her books. When I have mentioned my interest in her work to various people, I ...

Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, who has died aged 94, was one of the towering figures of modern literature; in the course of a writing career that spanned the latter half of the ...

Lessing, who died in 2013 aged 94, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Her books include The Golden Notebook, The Sweetest Dream and The Grass is Singing, as well a number of short story ...

Doris Lessing, famous for books like The Grass Is Singing and The Golden Notebook, won Britain's biggest literary award the David Cohen British Literature Prize earlier this year. She has been awarded ...

Doris Lessing, Author Who Swept Aside Convention, Is Dead at 94 Ms. Lessing was an uninhibited and outspoken novelist who produced dozens of novels, short stories, essays and poems, embarking on ...