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