Doris Lessing
1919 – 17 November 2013
324 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; born 22 October 1919) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.
In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to win the Literature Prize.
In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Also published as: Somers Jane, Doris May Lessing, D. Lessing, Dorris Lessing, Dois Lessing, D Lessing
Most-read books
The Golden Notebook
2.9 · 1962 · 94 want to read
The Grass is Singing
3.7 · 1950 · 48 want to read
The fifth child
3.3 · 1988 · 47 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
5 · 1991 · 49 want to read
Prisons we choose to live inside
5 · 1986 · 53 want to read
Great Short Stories of the World
1972 · 55 want to read
Shikasta
4 · 1979 · 38 want to read
To Room Nineteen
3 · 1978 · 34 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
1989 · 28 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition
3 · 2002 · 16 want to read
The Habit of Loving
1957 · 19 want to read
The Memoirs of a Survivor
4 · 1974 · 16 want to read
The marriages between zones three, four, and five (as narrated by the chroniclers of zone three)
3 · 1980 · 14 want to read
Martha Quest
3.5 · 1952 · 14 want to read
The Good Terrorist
3 · 1985 · 15 want to read
The grandmothers
4 · 2003 · 11 want to read
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
4 · 1971 · 13 want to read
On Cats
3 · 2002 · 11 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
4 · 2001 · 11 want to read
The Summer Before the Dark
4 · 1973 · 11 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
1999 · 11 want to read
A man and two women
4 · 1963 · 10 want to read
Fiction
4 · 1993 · 10 want to read
The Sirian experiments
3 · 1980 · 7 want to read