Doris Lessing

"Walking in the Shade" (1997) is the second volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography.

The married couple in this novel pull off a remarkable achievement: They purchase a three-story house with oodles of bedrooms, and, on a middle-class income, in the '70s, fill it to the brim with happy children and visiting relatives. Their holiday gatherings are sumptuous celebrations of life and togetherness. And …

Under My Skin: Volume I of my Autobiography, to 1949 was the first volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography, covering the period of her life from birth in 1919 to leaving Southern Rhodesia in 1949. Although Lessing describes her fiction as not autobiographical, in this volume she makes explicit comparisons between …