There’s a tidbit deep in the Times archive that reminds us of just what a brilliant artist and provocateur Doris Lessing could be. Lessing died Sunday at the age of 94. Back in 1984, she was already ...

When Nigel Farndale interviewed Doris Lessing in April 2008, at the age of 88, he found her still raging - at communists, war, Mrs Thatcher, the 'bloody Swedes' who awarded her the Nobel Prize... It ...

AS SHE climbed slowly out of the taxi with her shopping, her grey bun coming down as usual, Doris Lessing noticed that the front garden was full of photographers. They told her she had won the 2007 ...

At 88, Doris Lessing is still raging - at communists, war, Mrs Thatcher, the 'bloody Swedes' who awarded her the Nobel Prize... but most of her venom is reserved for the subject of what she says will ...

British novelist Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature yesterday for a body of work that looked unflinchingly at society?s ills and inspired a generation of feminist writers. The ...

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, who died peacefully on Nov 18, aged 94, was an immensely important and innovative writer, the recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature and a rare, unconventional woman who fearlessly ...

-- Born in what was Persia, now Iran, on October 22, 1919. Lessing was raised in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. At the age of seven she was sent to a convent boarding school but later moved to a ...

Nick Higham looks back at the life of novelist Doris Lessing A look at the life of Doris Lessing, the controversial novelist whose themes ranged from social justice to feminism and science fiction, ...