Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing
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File photograph shows British novelist Lessing sitting on the doorstep of her house in London
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File photo of British novelist Lessing waiting to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature at the Wallace Collection in London
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FILE - In this April 17, 2006 file photo, Writer Doris Lessing, 86, sits in her home in north London. Doris Lessing, the free-thinking, world-traveling, often-polarizing writer of "The Golden Notebook" and dozens of other novels that reflected her own improbable journey across the former British empire, has died, early Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013. She was 94. The author of more than 50 works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, Lessing explored topics ranging from colonial Africa to dystopian Britain, from the mystery of being female to the unknown worlds of science fiction. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver, File)
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British novelist Lessing laughs as she waits to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature at the Wallace Collection in London
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File photo of British novelist Lessing smiling on the doorstep of her house in London
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File photograph shows British novelist Doris Lessing smiling as she poses with her Nobel Prize for Literature at the Wallace Collection in London
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File photograph shows British novelist Lessing laughing as she waits to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature at the Wallace Collection in London
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Doris Lessing, the Nobel prize-winning British author of more than 55 works of fiction, died on Nov. 17. The 94-year-old also wrote opera, nonfiction and poetry, but was best known for her novel "The Golden Notebook," which was considered inflammatory when it was published.