Waiting now for the full obit that recognizes her achievements and her vast body of work, news from London today via a few paragrafs in the NY Times just now: Doris Lessing is dead at 94. If you haven't seen the video of her learning that she'd won the Nobel in Literature at 87, you must watch this. Clearly, her life was not about the glory.
Talking with reporters at her house after learning she'd won The Prize
(Shaun Curry/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images, thanks!)
