Doris Lessing (born 1919) was a South African expatriate writer known for her strong sense of feminism. A short story writer and novelist, as well as essayist and critic, Lessing was deeply concerned with the cultural inequities of her native land. The...

Doris Lessing burst upon the British literary scene in 1950 with her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, and she has remained at the top ever since. In the past four decades, her work has had a profound and lasting influence on both women and men, and...

[This entry was updated by Paul Schlueter from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 228-254.] Doris Lessing burst upon the British literary scene in 1950 with her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, and she...

Considered a significant writer of the post-World War II generation, Lessing has explored many of the most significant ideologies and social issues of the twentieth century. Her prolific body of work displays many interests and concerns, ranging from...

Doris Lessing CH OBE (born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Persia,[1] on 22 October 1919[2]) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook. In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She...

Carole Klein Doris Lessing: A Biography London/New York. Duckworth/Carroll & Graf. 2000. viii + 283 pages + 12 plates 18.99 [pounds sterling]/$26 ISBN 0-7156-2951-4/0-7867-0806-9 DORIS LESSING IS ONE of the few contemporary writers who has consistently been able to surprise both readers...

Sixty years ago, when Doris Lessing was a child and her family lived in what was then Southern Rhodesia, her dreamy, unconventional father would spend hours outside their hillside home, contemplating the glorious African landscape. "Mad! Mad!" he would shout, shaking his fist at...

Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing, who greeted news of her victory with the words, "I couldn't care less," received her prize Wednesday night at a champagne reception in London.The 88-year-old writer was still not entirely overwhelmed by the honor."There isn't anywhere to go from here,...

Doris Lessing, author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction, including the classic "The Golden Notebook," won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday. She was praised by the judges for her "skepticism, fire and visionary power."The Swedish academy's announcement was stunning even...

In the following essay, Franko examines "Lessing's ambivalent attitude toward canonical authorities" by focusing on the ways in which the narrators of her novels and short stories—including The Golden Notebook, Briefing for a Descent into Hell, and "The Sun Between Their Feet"—use and view language.

In the following essay, Fishburn contends that Lessing's novels are highly complex, subtly self-conscious "metafictions" and that "Lessing has never truly been the realist (we) critics thought her … [she only masqueraded as one."]

In the following essay, Tyler asserts that Virginia Woolf and Lessing use the Demeter myth “in their fiction to subvert the traditional heterosexual romance plot.”

This is a biography of writer Doris Lessing. Explores her childhood, early education, and career. Describes her association with the communist party.