Doris Lessing has never been one to shy from bold moves. She married early to escape her overbearing mother, then left her husband and two children, wedding a German Communist classed as an enemy ...

Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, will be 90 next year — but age hasn’t dampened her attraction to prickly subject matter or her interest in experimental narrative form. In ...

Just shy of her 89th birthday, English writer Doris Lessing has attracted many labels in the past six decades: feminist, Communist, activist, social commentator and — as of last year — Nobel laureate.

Heller McAlpin reviews books for a variety of publications, including Newsday and the Boston Globe. DORIS LESSING has never been one to shy from bold moves. She married early to escape her overbearing ...

Alfred & Emily is Doris Lessing's first book since the 88-year-old British writer won the 2007 Nobel Prize. Though by no means her best book, it reveals why Lessing deserved literature's highest honor ...

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 ...

In a short explanation included in her latest book, Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing notes that "even alert offspring or children may miss gold" when writing about their parents. But in Alfred And ...