Doris Lessing, the unconventional novelist who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Sunday at her home in London, according to obituaries in The Guardian and The New York Times. She was 94.

-- Born in what was Persia, now Iran, on October 22, 1919. Lessing was raised in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. At the age of seven she was sent to a convent boarding school but later moved to a ...

Doris Lessing, who famously told reporters she 'couldn't care less' about winning the Nobel Prize, died November 17 at the age of 94. (Elke Wetzig / Wikimedia Commons) Lessing’s own complexity and ...

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Ms. Lessing was an uninhibited and outspoken novelist who produced dozens of novels, short stories, essays and poems, embarking on dizzying and at times stultifying literary experiments. By Helen T.

Over a long life–she was 94 when she died on Nov. 17–Lessing produced dozens of novels, stories and essays–and one explosive device. It was her great and intricate second novel, The Golden Notebook, ...