Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; born 22 October 1919) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.

In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to win the Literature Prize.

In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

• The Golden Notebook
  The Golden Notebook 1962
• Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
  Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
• The fifth child
  The fifth child 1988
• The Grass is Singing
  The Grass is Singing 1950
• Prisons we choose to live inside
  Prisons we choose to live inside 1986
• Shikasta
  Shikasta 1979
• To Room Nineteen

  
  To Room Nineteen 1978
• The Habit of Loving
  The Habit of Loving 1957
• The marriages between zones three, four, and five (as narrated by the chroniclers of zone three)
  The marriages between zones three, four, and five (as narrated by the chroniclers of zone three) 1980
• Martha Quest
  Martha Quest 1952
• The Memoirs of a Survivor
  The Memoirs of a Survivor 1974
• The Good Terrorist
  The Good Terrorist 1985
• The grandmothers
  The grandmothers 2003