Doris Lessing spoke with reporters from her front porch in London after she won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Doris Lessing, the uninhibited and outspoken novelist who won the 2007 Nobel Prize for a lifetime of writing that shattered convention, both social and artistic, died Sunday morning at her home in London. She was 94.
Her death was confirmed by her publisher, HarperCollins. Her editor at HarperCollins, Nicholas Pearson, called Ms. Lessing a visionary in a statement on Sunday and said that her novel The Golden Notebook had been a handbook to a whole generation.
“Even in very old age she was always intellectually restless, reinventing herself, curious about the changing world around us, always completely inspirational,” Mr. Pearson said in the statement.
Ms. Lessing produced dozens of novels, short stories, essays and poems, drawing on a childhood in the central African bush, the teachings of Eastern mystics and years of involvement with grass-roots Communist groups. She embarked on dizzying and at times stultifying literary experiments.
Survivors include her daughter Jean and two granddaughters.
