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 ...

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.

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, ...