Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing, née Tayler, CH OMG (1919 – 2013) was a British novelist. Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny".…more

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	A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists From Brontë to Lessing by Elaine Showalter 4.05 avg rating — 609 ratings — published 1976 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 - 1962 by Doris Lessing 4.04 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 1997 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing by Lara Feigel 3.80 avg rating — 112 ratings add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doris Lessing: A Biography by Carole Klein 3.89 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2000 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Burning Glass: The Life of Naomi Mitchison by Jenni Calder 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1997 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parentesco animal: Los feminismos incómodos de Doris Lessing y Kate Millett by Noelia Adanez 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature by Peter J. Kalliney 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2022 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fiction of Doris Lessing: Re-envisioning Feminism by Ratna Raman 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars