Prolific, award-winning author Doris Lessing died in her sleep on Saturday night, her publisher said. She was 94. Lessing, who authored more than 50 works fiction, nonfiction and poetry ranging in ...

Ms. Lessing was an uninhibited and outspoken novelist who produced dozens of novels, short stories, essays and poems, embarking on dizzying and at times stultifying literary experiments. By Helen T.

That was typical of the independent - and often irascible - author who died Sunday after a long career that included "The Golden Notebook," a 1962 novel that made her an icon of the women's movement.

THE FOUR-GATED CITY by Doris Lessing. 613 pages. Knopf. $7.50. Fans of British Novelist Doris Lessing talk about a composite character called the Lessing Woman in much the same way as people once ...

“I have suffered a misfortune, she told herself; I haven’t committed a crime.” Harriet and David are a picture of marital bliss and a nightmare for population control fanatics. The young couple’s ...

Nobel literature prize winner Doris Lessing says she is unlikely to write a new full-length novel, according to excerpts of an interview released Sunday. In extracts of a British Broadcasting Corp.

British author Doris Lessing, whose powerful feminist and anti-colonial writing won her the Nobel Literature Prize, died Sunday at the age of 94, her agent and publisher said. The author’s longtime ...

During the 1970s, at the height of the feminist movement, Doris Lessing's novel The Golden Notebook became required reading for women's studies students. But despite writing one of the great feminist ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The novelist Doris Lessing, who tackled race, ideology, gender politics and the workings of the psyche in a prolific and often iconoclastic career, died in London on Sunday at the ...

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 Oh Christ!