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Books by Doris May Lessing
The Golden Notebook
- Paperback, 640 pages
The Cleft
- Hardcover, 260 pages
Stories
- Hardcover, 655 pages
Alfred and Emily
- Hardcover, 274 pages
NPR stories about Doris May Lessing
Best Books of 2008
Give A Book (And Yourself) This Holiday Season
December 12, 2008 If reading a story is — as John Gardner said — like falling into a vivid and continuous waking dream, then is giving a book like giving someone a dream? Reviewer Alan Cheuse puzzles over the perfect books for your loved ones this year.
Excerpt: Doris Lessing's 'Stories'
November 14, 2008 This Doris Lessing collection features three dozen of the Nobel Prize-winner's short stories.
Author Interviews
Doris Lessing Revisits — And Rewrites — The Past
October 4, 2008 As she nears the end of her own life, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing is attempting to make some sense of her beginnings: Her new novel, Alfred And Emily, imagines a better life for her parents — one in which they marry different people.
Book Reviews
Doris Lessing Mines Gold In 'Alfred And Emily'
August 12, 2008 Published on the verge of the author's 89th birthday, Doris Lessing's Alfred And Emily is an idiosyncratic combination of personal history, public history and fiction — all about her father and mother.
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Excerpt: 'Alfred And Emily'
July 30, 2008 Half-real and half-hypothetical, Doris Lessing's book about her parents examines their relationship and imagines them apart. Book critic Maureen Corrigan says the work is written with "pitiless precision."
Book Reviews
Timeless Narratives From Turbulent Eras
July 30, 2008 As war continues and the economy sags, Maureen Corrigan recommends three historical works that provide insight into coping with trying times.
Author Interviews
Literature Nobel Awarded to Writer Doris Lessing
October 11, 2007 Best known for her 1962 novel The Golden Notebook, Lessing's life work spans more than a half century. The British author is the 11th woman and the oldest writer to win the Nobel literature award.
Arts & Life
Lessing's 'The Cleft' Ponders Origins of Life
August 7, 2007 For nearly 60 years, Doris Lessing has been writing some of the most daring and important fiction in English. In her new novel, she takes a long look back over her shoulder to try to fathom the origins of human life.
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Author Interviews
A Portrait Of The Cartoonist And Her Mother
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel has a new memoir about her complicated relationship with her mother.
Author Interviews
A Quest For Roots Uncovers Ordinary People
Lawrence Jackson went on a quest to find his late grandfather's home in Virginia.
