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Posts tagged ‘doris lessing’


17 August 2016

Doris Lessing and Zimbabwe

Percy Zvomuya

Earlier this year Harare City Library unveiled the Doris Lessing Special Collection, 3500 of the writer’s books donated to the library after her death. Lessing lived in Southern Rhodesia between 1925 (when she was six) and 1949.


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