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 h...

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 the...

[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 has...

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Doris Lessing was born to British parents on October 22, 1919, in Kermanshah, Iran. When Lessing was five years old, her family moved to a farm in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). During her solitary childhood...

The Golden Notebook is a 1962 novel by British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing. This book, as well as the couple that followed it, enters the realm of what Margaret Drabble in The Oxford Companion to English Literature has called Lessing's...

If Doris Lessing has been popularly imagined - or marketed - in recent years as a serene sibyl dispensing Sufi wisdom from on high, then the second volume of her memoirs tweaks that image into place. Walking in the Shade (HarperCollins, pounds 20) throws...

... the most difficult [decision] I've made in my entire life, except the one I made in 1978 when I decided to get a bikini wax. --Arnold Schwarzenegger The well-contrived one-line joke was a little too well-rehearsed and the winning smile...

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...

Doris Lessing pulled up in a black cab where a media horde was waiting Thursday in front of her leafy north London home. Reporters opened the door and told her she had won the Nobel Prize for literature, to which she responded: "Oh Christ! ......

In the following essay, Hite examines the origins of Lessing's metafictional The Golden Notebook.

In the following essay, Altman assesses the unresolved sexual conflicts portrayed in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook and Simone de Beauvoir's Les Mandarins.