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

Top 10 dissenting life stories | Sheila Rowbotham
From Doris Lessing’s frank memoirs of social change to less famous campaigners in decisive struggles, these accounts provide an inspiring look ‘into the window’ of history
Sheila Rowbotham
30, Nov, 2022 @12:00 PM

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

From Donna Tartt to Irvine Welsh: 10 great novels about friendship
Urban junkies, competitive mothers, adolescent girls caught in the world of Charles Manson ... Lara Feigel picks her 10 favourites
Lara Feigel
04, Jul, 2020 @9:00 AM

Tsitsi Dangarembga: ‘Reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved changed my life’
The Zimbabwean author on her love for Toni Morrison and Doris Lessing, and why Reni Eddo-Lodge changed her mind about England
Tsitsi Dangarembga
10, Jan, 2020 @10:00 AM

How much did The Golden Notebook lift from Doris Lessing’s life?
A centenary exhibition of her archive shows the novel’s cast of feverish radicals were drawn recognisably from people she knew
Sam Jordison
29, Oct, 2019 @12:00 PM
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