English author Doris Lessing dead at age 94.  Born to British parents in Persia (now Iran) October 22, 1919, Lessing moved with her family to Zimbabwe, South Africa, at age five and lived there until she was twenty-nine.  Moved to England in 1949.
Leaving school at age fourteen she was self-educated from then on.

Lessing has over 55 works to her name having won among many awards the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 at the age of eighty-eight.  A word for young writers?  Doris advised, "Acquire a tough skin as soon as possible."

Among Lessing's novels:  The Golden Notebook and The Grass is Singing.