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Jenny Diski. Peter Lessing died in his flat, of a heart attack, in the early hours of 13 October 2013, aged 66. His mother, Doris Lessing, died four weeks later, on 17 November 2013, aged 94, in the adjoining house. An interconnecting door had been cut into the shared wall and was always left open. This very nearly tells the story of their ...
Peter Lessing died in his flat, of a heart attack, in the early hours of 13 October 2013, aged 66. His mother, Doris Lessing, died four weeks later, on 17 November 2013, aged 94, in the adjoining house. An interconnecting door had been cut into the shared wall and was always left open.
Apr 29, 2016 · The cause was a lung tumor and pulmonary fibrosis, her agent, Peter Straus, said. ... Peter Lessing, a classmate, wrote to his mother of Ms. Diski’s plight. Ms. Lessing, who had left two ...
Apr 26, 2022 · With Peter in day care every afternoon from about age 1 and Lessing making steady progress on a draft of her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, she was able to find a balance between her vocation ...
Apr 25, 2023 · Lessing brought along her third child, Peter, as well as a suitcase containing the manuscript for The Grass Is Singing. Once she got to London, the novel was published (or re-published—it had previously been published in Rhodesia) to great acclaim, and Lessing went on to become one of the few female literary lions this planet has ever hosted, however grudgingly.
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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. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the ...
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Nov 22, 2013 · By Peter Stanford 22 November 2013 • 8:33pm. The phrase “impossible to pigeon-hole” has been used many times in the obituaries and tributes paid this week to the Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing ...
