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Doris Lessing's Biography

Doris May Lessing CH, OBE (née Tayler; born 22 October 1919) is a Iranian-born British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.

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    News Source: The Guardian | 20 days ago
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    Blog Source: www.docudharma.com | 6 days ago
    "For my father, who used to sit, hour after hour, night after night, outside our house in Africa, watching the stars. "Well," he'd say, "if we blow ourselves up, there's plenty more where we came from." Doris Lessing ...
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    Blog Source: michelle-says.blogspot.com | 6 days ago
    I'll give it a try. And also, The Cleft by Doris Lessing. Which I've never heard of before, but I'm still working under the assumption that if I read enough Doris Lessing she will end up being one of my favourite authors. ...
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    Blog Source: the-iceberg.blogspot.com | 6 days ago
    I have The Golden Notebook: A Novel by Doris Lessing on my TBR tower and it would be perfect for the Women Unbound reading challenge!" This thought then led me to mentally review my bookshelves and I came up with The Left Hand of ...
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