Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. In the course of a long and eventful life, author Doris Lessing was many things. She was a mother ...

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.

British intelligence agency MI5 spied on author Doris Lessing for over 20 years, according to newly declassified papers, monitoring the Nobel prize-winner over her membership of the Communist Party, ...

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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 ...

British writer Doris Lessing has won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. She is the author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction. She also wrote extensively about gender and ...

"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 ...

Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning author, died Sunday morning according her publisher, Harper Collins. Lessing, who produced 55 works, including poetry, operas and short stories, was 94 years old ...

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 ...