Lessing, Doris

A twentieth-century British writer known for her vividly realistic and feminist novels , including the five-volume series Children of Violence and The Golden Notebook . She also wrote short stories, collected in volumes such as African Stories .

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Playboy has a long history of publishing short stories by notable female novelists including Margaret Atwood and Doris Lessing.

Doris Lessing invented Jane Somers to outwit indifferent publishers.

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