The literary executors of Doris Lessing’s will are looking to appoint a new biographer of the Nobel laureate, who will have access to the diaries Lessing had stipulated would remain closed to her ...

Lara Feigel's new book is a combination memoir and celebration of the writer Doris Lessing — whose famous distaste for convention led her to... Some books — not many, but a few — are vastly affected ...

Doris Lessing was born in Persia of British parents in 1919. She spent her childhood on her father's farm in what was then Southern Rhodesia. After leaving school at 14, she worked in a variety of ...

Patrick French is dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and professor for the public understanding of the humanities at Ahmedabad University in India. He is the authorized biographer of Doris ...

What it means to be an intelligent, political woman two generations after Lessing Doris Lessing’s work united mind, body and feeling. The Children of Violence series featuring Martha Quest, and above ...