Doris Lessing reveled in her status as a contrarian

An Appreciation: Britain's Lessing had no use for orthodoxy and was a writer who refused to be categorized, in life and in her works.



Doris Lessing, who died at home in London on Sunday at age 94, was a writer who refused to be categorized. Feminist, expatriate, experimentalist, realist, science-fiction writer: She was all of these and more.



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