Prolific, award-winning author Doris Lessing died in her sleep on Saturday night, her publisher said. She was 94. Lessing, who authored more than 50 works fiction, nonfiction and poetry ranging in ...

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 was one of the first literary authors to venture into science fiction. She wrote about aliens and space wars at a time when the genre was still shedding its embarrassing pulp tatters.

Close watchers of the Nobel Prize for Literature look at the selection process as a kind of geopolitical checkers match, as the Swedish Academy plucks major figures from the national literatures of ...

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, ...

(AP) Doris Lessing, the Nobel prize-winning, free-thinking, world-traveling and often-polarizing author of “The Golden Notebook” and dozens of other novels that reflected her own improbable journey ...