For nearly 60 years, Doris Lessing has been writing some of the most daring and important fiction in English. As she approaches her 88th birthday, she is still producing superb and fascinating work.

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, ...

"The Cleft" by Doris Lessing; HarperCollins ($25.95): In her new novel, "The Cleft," Doris Lessing carves out a world as "other" as her own life. One of the most distinguished writers of the last 100 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The novelist Doris Lessing, who tackled race, ideology, gender politics and the workings of the psyche in a prolific and often iconoclastic career, died in London on Sunday at the ...

Doris Lessing • One day in 2007, she emerged from a black cab outside her home in London and was confronted by a horde of reporters. When told she had won the Nobel Prize, she blinked and retorted “Oh ...

Ms. Lessing was an uninhibited and outspoken novelist who produced dozens of novels, short stories, essays and poems, embarking on dizzying and at times stultifying literary experiments. By Helen T.