"One has to remind [publishers] that what authors need is quiet—all writers need to be quiet; that we need in fact to be rather bored, we need to be unstimulated." -- Doris Lessing In this episode of ...

When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for literature last week, my first thought was: What a victory for science fiction! In 1979, three decades after her first novel, “The Grass Is Singing,” and 17 ...

When Doris Lessing accepted her Nobel Prize in literature last month, she wrote a speech that was so searingly eloquent, so blazing with anger, so impassioned, that the ocean temperature around ...

On October 11, 2007, Doris Lessing became the oldest person to win the Nobel Prize. In 2003, Bill Moyers talked with Lessing about life, politics and the process of writing.