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 ...

He is the authorized biographer of Doris Lessing. His books include The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul. In the 1920s, growing up on a poor farm in Southern Rhodesia ...

In the course of a long and eventful life, author Doris Lessing was many things. She was a mother — and a self-described "house mother" for a procession of starving artists, writers and ...

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 ...

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 that people abroad and at home are feeling in ...

Nick Higham looks back at the life of novelist Doris Lessing A look at the life of Doris Lessing, the controversial novelist whose themes ranged from social justice to feminism and science fiction ...

Critics said Doris Lessing, who died this week, put her career before her children. The truth is more complex and painful The phrase “impossible to pigeon-hole” has been used many times in the ...

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 ...