Topic: Doris Lessing

The making of a monster … a scene from Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London, in 2011. Photograph: Tristram Kenton . Clarissa by Samuel...

The Power of Perspective

When we allow our Selves to expand and grow, when the situations of our lives start to flow, when the going is good and the living gets easier, it seems only natural to be thankful. "Well," my dear Daile once calmly commented ...

2007 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Doris Lessing . The Grass is Singing published in 1950 Her autobiography, Walking in the Shade was nominated for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award Announced that Alfred and Emily will be her ...

Parenting potential writers

A good writer is first a good reader . William Faulkner once said, "Read, read, read. Read everything trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. "The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the same ...
It is fifty years since Doris Lessing published Going Home, an account of her return to Rhodesia, the country where she grew up. Fifty years on Doris Lessing's Going Home an historical record of this noxious system, a record that is ...

The Golden Notebook

Communist Party , and a yellow notebook containing free verse and that deals with the loss of a lover. The Golden Notebook Mahalo's Guide to Doris Lessing Official Site: "Doris Lessing's Road to the Nobel" (2007) Thinkexist.com:

Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing is a NobelPrize.org: The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 - Doris Lessing (October 11, 2007) 1950 :
Harriet and David Lovatt know that they are made for each other the moment their eyes meet - both want a big house, lots of children and family all around them. The characters, as I have grown to expect from Doris Lessing, are ...
Doris Lessing is an author that I have heard of, but until I read this book, I had no idea what sort of books she wrote. Yet her husband is a struggling farmer who lives a very solitary lifestyle and after initial ...

Literature Year In Review 2001

The Booker Prize chairman of judges, Lord Kenneth Baker, reported that the many entries he had read during 2001 proved that the novel was thriving and keeping abreast of developments within British life. The six titles short-listed included Rachel Seiffert's assured ...