In 1920s Rhodesia, leopards and snakes roamed the bush. Yet for 6-year-old Doris Lessing, this inhospitable environment offered a welcome refuge from her parents: Alfred, a soldier whose leg had been ...
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.
A divorced single mother in late 1950s London keeps four colour-coded notebooks because she cannot write fiction anymore. The 1962 novel that made Doris Lessing the oldest Nobel laureate ever.