Under My Skin

Doris Lessing (1919–2013) was a British novelist born Doris May Tayler on 22 October 1919 in Kermanshah, Persia (now Iran), to British parents. She spent her early childhood in Iran before her family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1925, where she grew up on a family farm. Largely self-taught after leaving school at thirteen, she moved to London in 1949 to pursue writing and became one of the most celebrated British authors of the twentieth century, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 at age eighty-seven. Read more →