Doris Lessing
b. 1919, Kermanshah, Iran
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).
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