Briefing for a Descent into Hell
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Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing CH, OBE (née Tayler; born 22 October 1919) is a Iranian-born British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.
In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy as "that epicist of the female...
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- 1971
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