![]() ![]() In 1960 Lessing’s breakthrough novel, The Golden Notebook, was hailed as a key work by the growing feminist movement. The best known of her work include the five books that make up the semi-autobiographical Children of Violence collection, also known as the Martha Quest series. She has turned her hand successfully to science fiction, social commentary, short stories, plays, fiction, operas and poetry. Over the past sixty years, Lessing has written over 60 books. She worked many odd-jobs and had several short stories printed before her first novel “The Grass is Singing” was published in 1950. She left school at 14 and educated herself. Born in Persia (now Iran) in 1919 to British parents, she moved with her family when she was five to a farm in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). One of the most influential writers of the last century, Doris Lessing has won almost every literary prize going. ![]()
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