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November 18, 2013

Nobel Prize-Winning Author Doris Lessing Dead at 94 
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The Nobel-winning author Doris Lessing has died at the age of 94.
Lessing wrote more than 55 works of fiction, poetry and operas. Her 1962
book, "The Golden Notebook," is widely considered to be the first
feminist novel. She died three weeks after the passing of her son Peter,
whom she cared for through years of illness.

 

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