Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing

What we can learn from Doris Lessing’s experiments in living

“Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.”

Allen Lane signs book on ‘artmaking, motherhood and time’ by Harriet Baker

From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers

Sunday book pick: An unaccomplished, angry mother in Doris Lessing’s 1988 novel, ‘The Fifth Child’

7 Novels That Explore Motherhood’s Complexities

Nobel Prizes: 5 Unlikely Winner Reactions, From the Unbothered to the Downright Mad

Where to start with Doris Lessing: a guide to her best works

Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the Divided Mother

This Novelist Abandoned Her Toddlers. I Wanted to Know Why.

Transcript from an interview with Doris Lessing

The Worst of Doris Lessing

The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent?

Life as a Teenage Girl, Living with Doris Lessing

The Reluctant African: The Life and Irascibility of Doris Lessing

We Don’t Have to Love Doris Lessing, But We Should Admire Her

Doris Lessing opened our eyes to apartheid too

The Doris Lessing I Knew: Young, Passionate, and Struggling to Keep It Together

Doris Lessing reveled in her status as a contrarian

Doris Lessing obituary

Doris Lessing, Author Who Swept Aside Convention, Is Dead at 94 (Published 2013)

On Doris Lessing’s “The Golden Notebook”

Feeling like a Stoic: Doris Lessing’s Experimental Fiction

Doris Lessing , The Art of Fiction No. 102

Salon’s guide to Nobel winner Doris Lessing