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- Birth nameDoris May Tayler
- Doris Lessing was born on October 22, 1919 in Kermanshah, Persia [now Iran]. She was a writer, known for Adore (2013), Maupassant (1963) and Memoirs of a Survivor (1981). She was married to Gottfried Anton Nicolai Lessing and Frank Charles Wisdom. She died on November 17, 2013 in London, England, UK.
- SpousesGottfried Anton Nicolai Lessing(1945 - 1949) (divorced, 1 child)Frank Charles Wisdom(1939 - 1943) (divorced, 2 children)
- She allegedly refused both an O.B.E. (Officer of the order of the British Empire) in 1977 and Damehood in 1993.
- Lives in West Hampstead, London, UK.
- She was awarded the CH (Companion of Honour) in the Queen's 2000 Millennium Honors List for her services to Literature.
- Has lived in London since 1949.
- Born to Captain Alfred Tayler and his wife Emily Maude McVeagh, she was born in Persia (now Iran) and grew up in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbawe).
- There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.
- [on winning the Nobel Prize for Literature at age 87, in October 2007] They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.
- I've got a cat, Yum-Yum. She's a very difficult pussy cat. You have to treat her as if she were a princess. Otherwise she is impossible.
- On strategy: What matters most is what we learn from living.
- On growth: Long after an experience...it is seen quite differently.
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