Doris Lessing has unquestionably been a prolific writer. During a career extending more than half a century, she's published some 50 novels, short-story collections and memoirs, either under her own ...

From her obituaries, and the serious critical assessments of her work, I hardly recognize the Doris Lessing I knew. I don’t fault the obit writers (I used to be one) or critics and admirers for ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Feigel (The Love-Charm of Bombs), a senior lecturer in English at King’s College London, weaves together two narratives: the life of acclaimed novelist Doris Lessing (1919–2013) and her own life story ...

The woman has trouble stepping out of the taxi. She is old, and the taxi sits higher off the ground than she might like. As she stoops to protect her head, the long red scarf that hangs from her neck ...

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.

Last year, Doris Lessing, almost 88 and the outspoken, iconoclastic author of more than 50 books — novels, story collections, poetry and nonfiction — became the oldest writer to receive the Nobel ...