Doris May Lessing CH OMG was a British novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Wikipedia
Born: October 22, 1919, Kermanshah, Iran
Died: November 17, 2013 (age 94 years), London, United Kingdom
Influenced by: Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and more
Parents: Emily Maude Tayler and Alfred Tayler
Spouse: Gottfried Lessing (m. 1945–1949) and Frank Wisdom (m. 1939–1943)
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