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- NAME: Doris Lessing
- OCCUPATION: Author
- BIRTH DATE: October 22, 1919 (Age: 93)
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Kermnshh, Iran
- Maiden Name: Doris May Tayler
- AKA: Jane Somers
- Full Name: Doris May Lessing
- ZODIAC SIGN: Libra
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Doris Lessing is a writer whose works have focused on people involved in the social and political upheavals of the 20th century.
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Doris Lessing works have focused on people involved in social and political upheaval. Her first book was The Grass Is Singing, in 1950. Her other works include Children of Violence and The Golden Notebook, and her collection of essays, Time Bites, displays her wide-ranging interests, from women's issues and politics to Sufism. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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