Doris Lessing

Amis, Hitchens and Larkin: bad behaviour and a messy personal life were once a gift for authors. Not any more | Martha Gill

Flaws used to feed their sales but now writers are expected to be saints

Martha Gill

27, May, 2023 @5:31 PM

I left my baby to write this. How do artists balance creativity and the ache for their child? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

All writers and painters who are mothers must tread a heroic path. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t have to, says the Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

06, Jan, 2023 @8:00 AM

Barbara Kingsolver: ‘Middlemarch is about everything, for every person, at every age’

The novelist on taking lessons from Doris Lessing, being inspired by John Steinbeck and why she can no longer read JD Salinger

Barbara Kingsolver

21, Oct, 2022 @9:00 AM

‘Books bring us into being’: how writing about reading became an inspiring literary genre of its own

Bibliomemoirs are an increasingly popular way for writers to celebrate reading and its power to shape lives

Lara Feigel

13, Aug, 2022 @7:00 AM

A jazz player, a rock climber and Doris Lessing: life for women over 50, 1975

A war opportunity, the first female ascent in the Alps, and an ex-Communist

Chris Hall

24, Apr, 2022 @5:00 AM

Top 10 books about platonic friendships | Nikita Lalwani

From Doris Lessing to Dickens and John Irving, these tales show how passionate, intense and vital ‘just’ friendships can be

Nikita Lalwani

07, Jul, 2021 @9:00 AM

Jessie Greengrass: 'Frog and Toad Are Friends contains one of the best jokes ever written'

The author on underrated ‘great of feminist literature’ Gaudy Night, looking forward to every Ian Rankin novel, and never finishing Middlemarch

Jessie Greengrass

19, Mar, 2021 @10:00 AM

Don’t forget so many brilliant women | Letters

Letters: An article by Caitlin Moran fails to acknowledge the female writers, politicians and musicians who were involved in groundbreaking work, says Dr Kim Thomas

Letters

31, Aug, 2020 @4:16 PM