It’s called “Alfred & Emily.” It’s about her parents. About their lives as they were — deeply scarred by World War I and played out as British colonials in outback Rhodesia. And about what their lives ...

Just shy of her 89th birthday, English writer Doris Lessing has attracted many labels in the past six decades: feminist, Communist, activist, social commentator and — as of last year — Nobel laureate.

Patrick French is dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and professor for the public understanding of the humanities at Ahmedabad University in India. He is the authorized biographer of Doris ...

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