Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing (1919–2013) was born in Persia, raised in Southern Rhodesia, and arrived in London in 1949 with the manuscript of her first novel and a determination to write the truth about women's lives. Over the next six decades, she produced more than fifty books spanning realist fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and political commentary. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Golden Notebook.