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Doris Lessing
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22 October 1919 - 17 November 2013
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British writer Doris Lessing (née Doris May Tayler) was born on October 22, 1919 in the city of Kermanshah in Persia (now Iran). Over time, her father, a retired British Army officer and World War I veteran working for the Imperial Bank, bought a farm in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where the family moved in 1925. Doris attended a Dominican school, then a Catholic school for girls in Salisbury, which she never graduated, deciding to start an independent life at the age of fifteen. Settled to
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British writer Doris Lessing (née Doris May Tayler) was born on October 22, 1919 in the city of Kermanshah in Persia (now Iran). Over time, her father, a retired British Army officer and World War I veteran working for the Imperial Bank, bought a farm in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where the family moved in 1925. Doris attended a Dominican school, then a Catholic school for girls in Salisbury, which she never graduated, deciding to start an independent life at the age of fifteen. Settled to work as a nurse, she engaged in self-education, reading political literature and works on sociology, at the same time began to write her first stories. Later Lessing worked as a telephone operator in Salisbury, married twice, had three children and participated in the activities of the local branch of the Book Club of the Left, which united people with social democratic, Labour and communist views.