STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Doris Lessing, author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction, including the classic “The Golden Notebook,” won the Nobel Prize for literature today. She was ...

When Doris Lessing learned she had been chosen as the 2007 Nobel laureate in literature, her response was something less than joyous. “I can’t say I’m overwhelmed with surprise,” she told reporters ...

The Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing, who died in 2013 at the age of 94, would have been 100 on October 22. The prolific writer and reluctant feminist icon was one of the 20th century's great ...

The conflicts between mothers and daughters have long interested Doris Lessing. Growing up on a farm in colonial Rhodesia in the 1920s, the Nobel laureate in literature certainly experienced her fair ...

For over half a century, Doris Lessing has turned her prolific pen to just about every prose form — fiction, autobiography, essays, drama. Yet all of her writing stems from the impulse to lay bare the ...

Just shy of her 89th birthday, English writer Doris Lessing has attracted many labels in the past six decades: feminist, Communist, activist, social commentator and — as of last year — Nobel laureate.

Translated from the German by Miss ELLEN FROTHINGHAM. I vol. 12mo. New York: Leypoldt and Holt. THE appearance of a new translation of Lessing’s master-work is another indication of the wide interest ...

For nearly 60 years, Doris Lessing has been writing some of the most daring and important fiction in English. As she approaches her 88th birthday, she is still producing superb and fascinating work.