The Golden Notebook Summary
Doris Lessing

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 Rhod... Read more

Biography EssayDoris 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 ... Read more

Doris Lessing, whose long career as a novelist, short story writer, and essayist began in the mid-twentieth century, is considered among the most important writers of the modern postwar era. Since her... Read more

Doris Lessing's literary career spans more than four decades; consequently her texts, both fiction and nonfiction, are valuable at the most basic level as historical records that tackle the central po... Read more

In the following essay, Hite examines the origins of Lessing's metafictional The Golden Notebook. Metafiction—fiction that is in some overt way about fiction—is one of the few ... Read more