FREE WOMAN: Life, Liberation, and Doris Lessing, by Lara Feigel. Bloomsbury, 323 pp., $28. In “Free Woman: Life, Liberation, and Doris Lessing,” Lara Feigel turns to the English novelist Doris Lessing ...

Doris Lessing, bless her, tells stories about people rather than art, about experiences rather than boredom, about significant moments in a life, odd adjustments made, unexpected corners turned ...

Eventually there were more than 50 titles to her name in every conceivable genre, from The Grass is Singing to science fiction. She was not a fussy stylist. In the clear-eyed, broad-ranging empathy of ...

In 1920s Rhodesia, leopards and snakes roamed the bush. Yet for 6-year-old Doris Lessing, this inhospitable environment offered a welcome refuge from her parents: Alfred, a soldier whose leg had been ...

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.

Over a long life–she was 94 when she died on Nov. 17–Lessing produced dozens of novels, stories and essays–and one explosive device. It was her great and intricate second novel, The Golden Notebook, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The novelist Doris Lessing, who tackled race, ideology, gender politics and the workings of the psyche in a prolific and often iconoclastic career, died in London on Sunday at the ...

When Doris Lessing, the British-Zimbabwean novelist who died in 2013, sat down to write “The Golden Notebook” in the 1950s, she was responding to a feeling of defeat in leftist circles, one similar to ...

Her publisher, HarperCollins says that the author of more than 50 works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, died peacefully early Sunday. By The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Doris Lessing, the Nobel ...

"The Cleft" by Doris Lessing; HarperCollins ($25.95): In her new novel, "The Cleft," Doris Lessing carves out a world as "other" as her own life. One of the most distinguished writers of the last 100 ...

Allen Lane has acquired Intense Life, a group biography of Penelope Mortimer, Doris Lessing, Maeve Gilmore, Jean Cooke and ...

And then there are Lessing’s memoirs, which took the reader up to 1962, just short of the publication of The Golden Notebook. Eventually there were more than 50 titles to her name in every conceivable ...