Putting the Questions Differently. Doris Lessing

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      1950

      The Grass Is Singing (Michael Joseph; New York, Crowell).

      1951

      This Was the Old Chiefs Country (Michael Joseph; New York: Crowell, 1952).

      1952

      Martha Quest, the first volume of Children of Violence (Michael Joseph; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964).

      1953

      Five: Short Novels (Michael Joseph; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960).

      1954

      A Proper Marriage, the second volume of Children of Violence (Michael Joseph; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964). Received Somerset Maugham Award of the Society of Authors for Five: Short Novels.

      1956

      Retreat to Innocence (Michael Joseph; New York: Prometheus, 1959).

      1957

      The Habit of Loving (MacGibbon and Kee; New York: Ballantine, Crowell, Popular Library).

      1958

      A Ripple from the Storm, the third volume of Children of Violence (Michael Joseph; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966).

      1962

      The Golden Notebook (Michael Joseph; New York, Simon & Schuster). Play with a Tiger: A Play in Three Acts (Michael Joseph).

      1963

      A Man and Two Women (MacGibbon and Kee; New York: Simon & Schuster, Popular Library).

      1964

      African Stories (Michael Joseph; New York: Simon & Schuster, Popular Library, 1965).

      1965

      Landlocked, the fourth volume of Children of Violence (MacGibbon and Kee; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966).

      1966

      The Black Madonna and Winter in July (Panther).

      1967

      Particularly Cats (Michael Joseph; New York, Simon & Schuster).

      1969

      The Four-Gated City, the fifth volume of Children of Violence (MacGibbon and Kee; New York, Knopf).

      1971

      Briefing for a Descent into Hell (Jonathan Cape; New York, Knopf).

      1972

      The Story of a Non-Marrying Man and Other Stories (Jonathan Cape); American title The Temptation of Jack Orkney (New York, Knopf).

      1973

      The Summer Before the Dark (Jonathan Cape; New York, Knopf).

      1974

      The Memoirs of a Survivor (Octagon; New York: Knopf, 1975).

      1976

      Received the French Prix Medicis for Foreigners.

      1978

      Stories (New York, Knopf).

      1979

      Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta, the first volume of Canopus in Argos: Archives (Jonathan Cape; New York, Knopf).

      1980

      The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five, the second volume of Canopus in Argos: Archives (Jonathan Cape; New York, Knopf).

      1981

      The Sirian Experiments, the third volume of Canopus in Argos: Archives (Jonathan Cape; New York, Knopf).

      1982

      The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, the fourth volume of Canopus in Argos: Archives (Jonathan Cape; New York, Knopf). Received the Shakespeare Prize of the West German Hamburger Stiftung and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature.

      1983

      Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (Jonathan Cape; New York, Knopf).

      1984

      The Diaries of Jane Somers (New York: Random House), two novels originally published under the pseudonym Jane Somers as The Diary of A Good Neighbor and If the Old Could… (Michael Joseph, 1983–84; New York, Knopf).

      1985

      The Good Terrorist (Jonathan Cape; New York, Knopf).

      1986

      Received the W. H. Smith Literary Award.

      1987

      Received the Palmero Prize and the Premio Internazionale Mondello.

      1988

      The Fifth Child (Jonathan Cape; New York, Knopf).

      1992

      African Laughter (New York, HarperCollins). London Observed (HarperCollins); American title The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches (HarperCollins).

       Talking as a Person Roy Newquist

      

      

      Roy Newquist’s interview originally appeared in Counterpoint (Rand McNally, 1964). Copyright © 1964 by Roy Newquist. Reprinted with permission.

      Newquist: When did you start writing?

      Lessing: I think I’ve always been a writer by temperament. I wrote some bad novels in my teens. I always knew I would be a writer, but not until I was quite old – twenty-six or -seven – did I realize that I’d better stop saying I was going to be one and get down to business. I was working in a lawyer’s office at the time, and I remember walking in and saying to my boss, “I’m giving up my job because I’m going to write a novel.” He very properly laughed, and I indignantly walked home and wrote The Grass Is Singing. I’m oversimplifying; I didn’t write it as simply as that because I was clumsy at writing and it was much too long, but I did learn by writing it. It focused upon white people in Southern Rhodesia, but it could have been about white people anywhere south of the Zambezi, white people who were not up to what is expected of them in a society where there is very heavy competition from the black people coming up.

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