STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Doris Lessing, author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction, including the classic “The Golden Notebook,” won the Nobel Prize for literature today. She was ...

When Doris Lessing learned she had been chosen as the 2007 Nobel laureate in literature, her response was something less than joyous. “I can’t say I’m overwhelmed with surprise,” she told reporters ...

Just shy of her 89th birthday, English writer Doris Lessing has attracted many labels in the past six decades: feminist, Communist, activist, social commentator and — as of last year — Nobel laureate.

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.