While Doris Lessing was out shopping today, the Swedish Academy announced that she had won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. I remember reading The Golden Notebook in the heady days of the late '60's/early '70's wave of the U.S. feminist movement. Interesting that someone who was uncomfortable with the feminist label is only the 11th woman to have won the prize since it was first awarded in 1901. Cybertrivia from the above linked article: "She is also probably one of the oldest people anywhere to have her own page on the popular social networking web site MySpace. On a recent visit the site announced, under the label "Female - 87 years old," that "Doris Lessing has 136 friends.""
Has anyone read her lately?
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