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Birth Name:

Doris May Tayler

Female

Birth Date:

Wed, Oct 22, 1919

Time of Birth:

12:00 AM

Place of Birth:

Kermanshah, Kermānshāh, Iran

Age:

105

Zodiac Sign:

Libra

Astrology Data:

Sun

27°

Lib

24'

Moon

5°

Lib

1'

Asc

5°

Leo

52'

MC

26°

Ari

44'

About Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Transcript of Doris Lessing's "Dame" rejection letter to the John Major Government

• Doris Lessing, Excerpts 'On Cats'

• Doris Lessing homepage created by Jan Hanford

• Doris Lessing on IMDb

• Doris Lessing at Curlie

• "The shadow of the fifth": patterns of exclusion in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child (Anne-Laure Brevet) Works by Doris Lessing at Open Library

• List of Works

• Doris Lessing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

• Doris Lessing at British Council: Literature

• Doris Lessing on Nobelprize.org with the Nobel Lecture December 7, 2007 On not winning the Nobel Prize

• Doris Lessing at Web of Stories (videos)

• Joyce Carol Oates on Doris Lessing

• Thomas Frick (Spring 1988). "Doris Lessing, The Art of Fiction No. 102". The Paris Review. Spring 1988 (106).

• Doris Lessing's papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin

• Doris Lessing Archive, University of East Anglia

• University of Tulsa McFarlin Library's inventory of Doris Lessing manuscripts housed in Special Collections

• Doris Lessing Page at Guardian Unlimited

• Doris Lessing Society

• Doris Lessing, Author Who Swept Aside Convention, Is Dead at 94, by Helen T Virongos & Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 2013-11-18. (Page A1, 2013-11-17).

• Appearances on C-SPAN

• Cats in Literature – Doris Lessing

Birth Chart and Planetary Positions of Doris Lessing

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Doris Lessing: Sun 27 Libra, Moon 5 Libra, Mercury 13 Scorpio, Venus 16 Virgo, Mars 7 Virgo, Jupiter 15 Leo, Saturn 8 Virgo, Uranus 27 Aquarius, Neptune 11 Leo, Pluto 7 Cancer, Asc 5 Leo, Mc 26 Aries, Sun Trine Uranus, Moon Square Pluto, Mercury Square Neptune, Moon Sextile Ascendant, Sun Opposition Midheaven, Mercury Sextile Venus, Mercury Square Jupiter, Venus Semi Sextile Jupiter, Mars Conjunct Saturn, Mars Sextile Pluto, Mars Semi Sextile Ascendant, Jupiter Conjunct Neptune, Saturn Sextile Pluto, Uranus Sextile Midheaven, Neptune Conjunct Ascendant, Pluto Semi Sextile Ascendant

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