Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books--among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.
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Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1962) was one of the most influential novels of the late 20thC. What makes Lessing's books so powerful, especially for women? Live online course, Sept-Oct 2023: Lessing: Women and Destiny. https://t.co/7vD1knJNkG https://t.co/5499H7o2xd
"Lessing writes about her own sex with the unrelenting intensity of Simone de Beauvoir, and about sex itself with the frankness and detail of John O." -- Washington Post
"A work of high seriousness . . . The most absorbing and exciting piece of new fiction I have read in a decade; it moves with the beat of our time, and it is true." -- Irving Howe, The New Republican
"No ordinary work of fiction...the technique, in a word, is brilliant, and places Doris Lessing in the forefront of British novelists." -- Saturday Review
"This exciting writer has tried much, aimed high, and has paraded a galaxy of gifts." -- Baltimore Sun
"The most absorbing and exciting piece of new fiction I have read in a decades; it moves with the beat of our time, and it is true." -- Irving Howe, New Republic