Doris Lessing is a British writer. She was born in Persia (Iran nowadays) in 1919 and moved to Southern Rhodesia when she was 5. She left her family when she was still very young. She moved to Britain in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than 30 books and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.
Lessing has described her childhood as an uneven mix of some pleasure and much pain. Her mother, obsessed with raising a proper daughter, enforced a rigid system of rules and hygiene at home, then installed Doris in a convent school, where nuns terrified her with stories of hell and damnation. Lessing was later sent to an all-girls high school in the capital of Salisbury, from which she soon dropped out. She was thirteen; and it was the end of her formal education.
She made herself into a self-educated intellectual.
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