Lessing's 1962 book was regarded as among the most important feminist novels of its time. She died Sunday. Fresh Air's Terry Gross interviewed... Fresh Air Remembers 'Golden Notebook' Author Doris ...

Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose novel “Adore” was adapted as a Naomi Watts starter this year, has died in London. She was 94. Her publisher, HarperCollins, said the author of more ...

Lessing's 1962 novel, The Golden Notebook, is considered one of the great works of the 20th Century. It's been called by many the first feminist... Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize-Winning Author, Dies ...

A divorced single mother in late 1950s London keeps four colour-coded notebooks because she cannot write fiction anymore. The 1962 novel that made Doris Lessing the oldest Nobel laureate ever.

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Close watchers of the Nobel Prize for Literature look at the selection process as a kind of geopolitical checkers match, as the Swedish Academy plucks major figures from the national literatures of ...

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THE RELATIONSHIP between the writer and an academic enamored of the writer is a very dangerous one. The brashness brought on by a doctoral degree can lead scholars to believe they know the writer's ...

NEW YORK -- Doris Lessing, Nobel laureate. This year's winner of the literature prize should inspire a fresh look at the long, prolific career of the author of "The Golden Notebook" and dozens of ...

LONDON — Doris Lessing emerged from a black cab outside her home in London one day in 2007 and was confronted by a horde of reporters. When told she had won the Nobel Prize, she blinked and retorted ...

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, ...