Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose novel “Adore” was adapted as a Naomi Watts starter this year, has died in London. She was 94. Her publisher, HarperCollins, said the author of more ...

Doris Lessing, the unconventional novelist who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Sunday at her home in London, according to obituaries in The Guardian and The New York Times. She was 94.

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 ...

Over a long life–she was 94 when she died on Nov. 17–Lessing produced dozens of novels, stories and essays–and one explosive device. It was her great and intricate second novel, The Golden Notebook, ...

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Rereading Borges after many years of reading many great writers, what strikes me is how truly singular his work was. To me, he’s incredibly inspiring. It contains so many ideas and so many different ...

Doris Lessing, the Nobel prize-winning, free-thinking, world-traveling and often-polarizing author of "The Golden Notebook" and dozens of other novels that reflected her own improbable journey across ...