2006-01-15 04:00:00 PDT London-- For 25 years, Doris Lessing has lived in a small row house in a North London neighborhood that abuts the cemetery where Sigmund Freud is buried. Each morning, the ...

In recent years the life of cultivated people has been marked by a fierce attachment to "personal values." I put the phrase in quote marks to point toward something more problematic than the usual web ...

Doris Lessing is dead, finally dead at age 94. When I heard the news I thought right away of the moment when Jane Eyre is being terrified into obedience by the loathsome Mr. Brocklehurst. “Should you ...

LONDON (AP) -- 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 ...

Novelist and essayist Doris Lessing died Sunday at the age of 94. Lessing won the Nobel Prize in 2007. She lived in England most of her life, but she grew up in southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.

A few years ago I met Mia Gallagher in the cafe at the Lighthouse Cinema and we talked about how the gestation of some novels can be slow, convoluted, frustrating. (Full disclosure: Mia is a friend as ...

The Golden Notebook is a radical work, whose character nonetheless derives from and is encompassed by literary tradition. Doris Lessing set out to write a novel that was neither morally deformed by ...

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 ...

Doris Lessing, who wrote the landmark 1962 novel The Golden Notebook and won the Nobel Prize, has died aged 94. The British author died peacefully at her London home in the early hours today, a ...