STOCKHOLM, Sweden ” British writer Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her “skepticism, fire and visionary power” in dozens of works, ...

During the 1970s, at the height of the feminist movement, Doris Lessing's novel The Golden Notebook became required reading for women's studies students. But despite writing one of the great feminist ...

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 ...