Published in Britain in 1962, the book did not make it to France or Germany for 14 years because it was considered too inflammatory. But it became so widely talked about and dissected that she later referred to it as a 'failure' and 'an albatross.' The novel covers a range of previously unmentionable female conditions - menstruation, orgasms, and frigidity - and madeВ LessingВ an icon for women's liberation. She remains best known for 'The Golden Notebook,' in which heroine Anna Wulf uses four notebooks to bring together the separate parts of her disintegrating life. The one case that could define the Supreme CourtвЂ™s term вЂ“ and legacy Bush - 'a world calamity' - and modern women - 'smug, self-righteous.' She also raised hackles by deeming the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States 'not that terrible.' The targets of her vocal ire in recent years included former President George W. That was typical of the irascible, independentВ Lessing, who never saved her fire for the page. The Swedish Academy praisedВ LessingВ for her 'skepticism, fire and visionary power.' When informed about winning the prize outside her home she responded: 'Oh Christ!. She won the Nobel Literature prize in 2007. LessingВ explored topics ranging from colonial Africa to dystopian Britain, from the mystery of being female, to the unknown worlds of science fiction. Her family requested privacy, and the exact cause of death was not immediately clear. Her publisher, HarperCollins, said the author of more than 55 works of fiction, opera, nonfiction and poetry, died peacefully at her home in London. DorisВ Lessing, the Nobel prize-winning, free-thinking, world-traveling and often-polarizing author of 'The Golden Notebook' and dozens of other novels that reflected her own improbable journey across the former British empire, died Sunday.

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