Doris Lessing, Chronicler of Many Rifts, Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

By JENNIFER HOWARD

Doris Lessing, the novelist who for six decades has been a fierce and wide-ranging chronicler of the rifts between men and women, black and white, and the self and society, has won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In making the award, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the...