The Golden Notebook Author:Doris Lessing Doris Lessing is one of the leading writers in the world today. She was born in 1919, raised in Southern Rhodesia, and has lived in England since 1949. Her cycle of novels, Children of Violence (last of which is The Four-Gated City), is one of the major fiction achievements of our age. With her pioneering novel, The Golden Noteb... more »ook, Mrs. Lessing began to focus on the experience of contemporary liberated women and men. Briefing for a Descent Into Hell and, most recently, The Summer Before the Dark provide other examples of the remarkable intelligence and passion and courage that have made her name and her work synonymous with the exploration of consciousness in our time.« less