Writing · Novel · Writer
Born Oct 22, 1919 · Kermanshah, Persia [now Iran]
Active 1962–2013 · Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Somerset Maugham Award, WH Smith Literary Award, Grinzane Cavour Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, David Cohen Prize, Princess of Asturias Literary Prize, Prix Médicis étranger
Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925.