Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing spent her childhood in southern Africa (modern-day Zimbabwe) reading the great modern English and Russian novelists. After moving to London in 1949, she published her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, and devoted herself to a career in writing. Lessing’s novels deal with social and political issues of inequality and cultural tensions; other works include The Golden Notebook (1962), Children of Violence (1951–59), and The Good Terrorist (1985).