The conflicts between mothers and daughters have long interested Doris Lessing. Growing up on a farm in colonial Rhodesia in the 1920s, the Nobel laureate in literature certainly experienced her fair ...

The woman has trouble stepping out of the taxi. She is old, and the taxi sits higher off the ground than she might like. As she stoops to protect her head, the long red scarf that hangs from her neck ...

Doris Lessing, who died at home in London on Sunday at age 94, was a writer who refused to be categorized. Feminist, expatriate, experimentalist, realist, science-fiction writer: She was all of these ...

In her latest book, "Alfred and Emily" (Harper), Nobel laureate Doris Lessing dissects the lives of her parents and the horrific legacy the first world war left on their existence. Throughout a ...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. In retrospectives, Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing often gets tagged as a British novelist, having been born to ...

Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing died at her home in London on Sunday, her publisher announced. She was 94. Lessing is best known for her 1962 novel “The Golden Notebook,” considered an ...

Lessing explored topics ranging from feminism to the British Empire and science fiction She won the Nobel Prize in 2007 She is best known for %27The Golden Notebook ...

Doris Lessing, one of the most celebrated British writers of the last century who wrote The Golden Notebook and The Grass is Singing, died peacefully early Sunday. She was 94. Lessing began her career ...