Doris Lessing
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Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Lessing was born to British parents in Iran, whe
Lessing in 2006
Lessing in 1984
The Good Terrorist
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The Good Terrorist is a 1985 political novel written by the British novelist Doris Lessing. The book's protagonist is the naïve drifter Alice, who squats with a group of radicals in London and is draw
Doris Lessing
…include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983). Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding…
Cover of first UK edition
The 1983 IRA bombing of the Harrods department store (shown here in 2009) spurred Lessing to write The Good Terrorist.