STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Doris Lessing, author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction, including the classic “The Golden Notebook,” won the Nobel Prize for literature today. She was ...

When Doris Lessing learned she had been chosen as the 2007 Nobel laureate in literature, her response was something less than joyous. “I can’t say I’m overwhelmed with surprise,” she told reporters ...

The Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing, who died in 2013 at the age of 94, would have been 100 on October 22. The prolific writer and reluctant feminist icon was one of the 20th century's great ...

Just shy of her 89th birthday, English writer Doris Lessing has attracted many labels in the past six decades: feminist, Communist, activist, social commentator and — as of last year — Nobel laureate.