Doris Lessing: British Nobel Author Dies At 94

Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of The Golden Notebook, has died aged 94. The British author died peacefully at her London home in the early hours of this morning, a spokesman said. Born in Persia - modern day Iran - in 1919,  Ms Lessing grew up in Southern Rhodesia before emigrating to London after the Second World War with the manuscript of her first novel ...