Doris Lessing Reading List

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Doris Lessing Reading List

A Mild Attack of Locusts by Doris Lessing

The New Yorker, 3159 words, February 26, 1955

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1955/02/26/1955_02_26_080_TNY_CARDS_000244864

Myself as Sportsman by Doris Lessing

The New Yorker, 2610 words, published January 21, 1956

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1956/01/21/1956_01_21_092_TNY_CARDS_000249644

A Visit With Doris Lessing - by Joyce Carol Oates

Southern Review, 3567 words, October 1973

http://www.usfca.edu/jco/dorislessing/

The Spacing Out Of Doris Lessing

nyt.com, 2574 words, published February 7, 1982

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/07/books/the-spacing-out-of-doris-lessing.html?

pagewanted=print

Doris Lessing on Feminism, Communism and 'Space Fiction'

by Lesley Hazelton

nytimes.com, 4546 words July 25, 1982

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/lessing-space.html

Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles

by Herbert Mitgang

nytimes.com, 1383 words, published April 22, 1984

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/lessing-puzzles.html

Doris Lessing Says She Used Pen Name to Show New Writers' Difficulties

by Edwin Mcdowell

nytimes.com, 1474 words, published September 23, 1984

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/lessing-pen.html

Alice, The Radical Homemaker

Book Review: The Good Terrorist

nytimes.com, 2009 words, published September 22, 1985

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/lessing-terrorist.html

Bad News For the Nice and Well-Meaning

Book Review: The Fifth Child

nytimes.com, 1827 words, published April 3, 1988

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/lessing-fifth.html

Doris Lessing, The Art of Fiction No. 102

theparisreview.org, 6958 words, published Spring 1988

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2537/the-art-of-fiction-no-102-doris-lessing

The Painful Nurturing of Doris Lessing's 'Fifth Child'

by Mervyn Rothstein

nytimes.com, 1237 words, published June 14, 1988

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/lessing-child.html

Language and the Lunatic Fringe

by Doris Lessing

nytimes.com, 1347 words, published June 26, 1992

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/14/reviews/lessing-language.html

At The Guggenheim With: Doris Lessing; A Portrait Unwinds, As in Life

by Diana Jean Schemo

nytimes.com, 1812 words, published November 2, 1994

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/lessing-guggenheim.html

Biography: A Reader's Guide to The Golden Notebook & Under My Skin,

dorislessing.org, 1971 words, Published 1995

http://www.dorislessing.org/biography.html

The Stare by Doris Lessing

The New Yorker, 4102 words, published July 7, 1997

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1997/07/07/1997_07_07_066_TNY_CARDS_000378428

Doris Lessing Interview by Jonah Raskin

dorislessing.org 3890 words. Published in The Progressive, June 1999

http://www.dorislessing.org/theprogressive.html

Carlyle's House by Virginia Woolf: Forward by Doris Lessing

theguardian.com, 1739 words, published June 2003

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jun/14/classics.virginiawoolf

Doris Lessing Tells Her Life Story

webofstories.com, 26 Doris Lessing video clips, no date given

http://www.webofstories.com/play/doris.lessing/1

Doris Lessing: Hot Dawns

3320 words, Originally published in the Boston Book Review, no date given

http://www.dorislessing.org/boston.html

A Bill Moyers Essay and Video Honoring Doris Lessing

Bill Moyers Journal, 760, words, published October 12, 2007

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/ /10122007/transcript3.html

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10122007/watch3.html

Author Lessing Wins Nobel Honour

BBC News Online, 577 Words, Published 23 October 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7039100.stm

Doris Lessing - The Compulsion to Write - Writers on Writing

About.com, 827 words, no date given

http://grammar.about.com/od/writersonwriting/a/lessingadvice07.htm

Doris Lessing Donates Revelatory Letters To University

theguardian.com, 673 words, published October 22, 2008

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/22/doris-lessing-letters

Doris Lessing Quotesabout.com, 724 words, no date givenhttp://classiclit.about.com/od/lessingdoris/a/aa_dlessingquot.htm

Doris Lessing, Author Who Swept Aside Convention, Is Dead at 94

The New York Times obit, 2563 words, published November 17, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/books/doris-lessing-novelist-who-won-2007-nobel-is-

dead-at-94.html?hpw&rref=obituaries