Under My Skin, by Doris Lessing

A friend loaned me this first volume of Lessing’s two-volume autobiography. The Nobel Prize winner passed away November 2013 at the age of 94, and reading the articles about her reminded me that I hadn’t read any of her books for a long time. Back in the 1970s I gobbled up books like The Golden Notebook and the Children of Violence series. They were a huge influence on my emerging understanding of myself as a person and of women’s roles in society. The Golden Notebook also influenced me as a...