Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing sat down with professor John Mullan at her London home on April 14, 2008, to conduct an interview for the Nobel Foundation, which had awarded her the Nobel Prize for Literature the previous year. Lessing discussed the stories and inspirations behind her most famous novels.

Additional Interviews With Doris Lessing
Lessing shed light on her writing process, the self-proclaimed “neurotic” quality of needing to write continually, the effect of being a child of World War I, and the impact of the ‘60s in a 2003 interview with PBS’ Bill Moyers.

Lessing discussed the sexual revolution, political correctness, the Cold War, and the publishing process in a 1997 interview Dwight Garner for with Salon magazine

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