Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing’s remarkable debut novel, The Grass is Singing, was published in 1950. In more than six decades since, she was written over 80 books and been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.


This Guardian Short gathers together a collection of the best writing by and about Doris Lessing to have been published in the Guardian and Observer. Presented with a new narrative that takes the reader through the key periods of her fascinating life – from the publication of her most famous work, The Golden Notebook, to her deep and thoughtful involvement with science fiction and Sufism – it is a unique and immediate insight into the life and work of Doris Lessing.