• I am going to realize the bibliography of Doris Lessing by all the years since she began to write. And include in every year, that it´s posible, one portrait of Doris Lessing in this year. Some of this portraits have been excluded of her books.

    Index by years: 1948 1949 195019511952 19531954 1955 19561957 1958 195919601961 1962 196319641965
                    1966 1967 1968196919701971197219731974 1975 197619771978 197919801981 19821983
                    1984 1985 19861987198819891990 19911992 19931994 19951996 1997199819992000

• The short story The Pig published in TREK 12, April 1948
• The short story Flight published in TREK 12 , September 1948

The Pig (short story) and Flight (short story), publshed in TREK, 12 (April 1948)




















1949



Doris Lessing, year 1949

• The short story Under My Hand published in TREK 13 , February 1949
The short story Fruit From Ashes published in TREK13 , October 1949



















1950


Doris Lessing, year 1950.
• The Grass Is Singing
London:
Michael Joseph, 1950
Penquin, 1961
Heinemann Educ, 1973
Grafton, 1980
Paladin, 1989
Penquin (Adaptation - retold by Andy Hopkins and Joc Potter), 1992
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1994
New York:
Crowell, 1950
Bantam Books, 1952
Ballantine Books, 1964
Popular Library, 1970's.
New American Library (A Plume Book), 1976
Plume, 1995
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1999
The Nuissance (short story) published in Towards the Sun: A Miscellany of Southern Africa, edited by Roy Macnab. London: Collins.


















1951

• This Was the Old Chief's Country
London: Michael Joseph, 1951
New York: Crowell, 1952


1952

• Martha Quest, the first volume of Children of Violence
London:
Michael Joseph, 1952
MacGibbon & Kee, 1965 (in one volume with A Proper Marriage)
Panther, 1969
Hart-Davis/Granada, 1977
HarperCollins, 1993
New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1964 (in one volume with A Proper Marriage)
Signet, 1966
Plume (Penquin), 1970
Plume, 1993
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1995
San Bernardino, CA:
Borgo Press, 1995


1953

• Five: Short Novels
London:
Michael Joseph, 1953
Penguin, 1960
Granada, 1969
Panther, 1972
Paladin, 1991
• Before the Deluge (play) later called Mr. Dolinger (1958).


1954



Doris Lessing, year 1954




• A Proper Marriage, the second volume of Children of Violence
London:
Michael Joseph, 1954
MacGibbon & Kee, 1965 (in one volume with Martha Quest)
Granada, 1977
Grafton, 1990
HarperCollins, 1993
New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1964 (in one volume with Martha Quest)
Plume (Penquin), 1970
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1995
San Bernardino, CA:
Borgo Press, 1995
• Received Somerset Maugham Award of the Society of Authors for Five: Short Novels.
• A Road to the Big City (short story), Pick of Today's Short Stories 5.


1955



Doris Lessing, year 1955.




• A Mild Attack of Locusts (short story), published in the New Yorker, February 26, 1955.
• Through The Tunnel (short story), published in the New Yorker, August 6, 1955
1956

Doris Lessing, year 1956

• Retreat to Innocence
London:
Michael Joseph, 1956
Sphere Books, 1967
New York:
Prometheus (Liberty Book Club), 1959
• Myself As Spokesman (essay), New Yorker, 31, January 21, 1956 (also referred to as "Myself as Sportsman" in some sources)
• Being Prohibited (essay), New Statesman and Nation, 51, April 2, 1956
• Kariba Project (essay), New Statesman and Nation, 51, June 9, 1956
• Plea for the Hated Dead Woman (poem), New Statesman and Nation, 51, June 30, 1956


1957
 
 

• Going Home
London:
Michael Joseph, 1957
Panther, 1968
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1992
New York:
Ballantine Books, 1968
Popular Library, 1970's
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1996
• The Habit of Loving
London:
MacGibbon & Kee, 1957
Panther, 1966
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1993
New York:
Crowell, 1958
Ballantine, 196?
Popular Library, 196?
• The Black Madonna (short story), published in Winter's Tales 3. London: Macmillan.

 
• The Small Personal Voice (essay), in Declaration
London:
MacGibbon & Kee, 1957
Reader's Union, 1959
New York:
E. P. Dutton & Co., 1958
• Flavours of Exile (short story) published in The London Magazine - Vol. 4, No. 2., edited by John Lehmann; London: Chatto & Windus. 1957.
• Tobacco Farm (article) with drawings by Paul Hogarth, published In "The Countryman, A Quarterly Non-Party Review and Miscellany of Rural Life and Work for the English-speaking World", Volume LIV, No. 2, Summer 1957.


1958

• A Ripple from the Storm, the third volume of Children of Violence
London:
Michael Joseph, 1958
MacGibbon & Kee, 1965
Panther/Granada, 1966
Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1977
Paladin, 1990
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1993
New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1966 (in one volume with Landlocked)
Plume (New American Library), 1970 (reprinted by Plume/Penquin)
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1995
San Bernardino, CA:
Borgo Press, 1995
• Mr. Dolinger (play) (also know under the title Before the Deluge), was produced at the Oxford Playhouse, England. The play is unpublished.
• Each His Own Wilderness (play) was performed by the English Stage Society at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 23 March.
• London Diary (essay), New Statesman, 55, March 15, 1958.
• London Diary (essay), New Statesman, 55, March 22, 1958.
• Desert Child (essay), New Statesman, 56, November 15, 1958.


1959

• Each His Own Wilderness (play) published in New English Dramatists, Three Plays introduced and edited by E. Martin Browne. (Each His Own Wilderness, Doris Lessing; The Hamlet of Stepney Green, Bernard Kops; Chicken Soup with Barley, Arnold Wesker.)
Harmondsworth:
Penquin, 1959;
London:
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1996 (Play with a Tiger and Other Plays)
• Fourteen Poems
Norwood (U.K.): Scorpion Press
• Crisis in Central Africa: The Fruits of Humbug (essay), Twentieth Century, 165, April 1959.

 
• 1960 
•  In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary
London:
MacGibbon & Kee, 1960
Sphere Books Limited, 1968
Granada, 1977
Panther/Granada, 1980
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1993
New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1961
Ballantine Books, 1966
Popular Library, 1970's
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1996
• In Pursuit of the English (excerpt), Alienation. London: MacGibbon & Kee.
• Through the Tunnel (short story), published in Great Stories From The World of Sport, editors Peter Schwed and Herbert Warren Wind. London: Heineman.
• Ordinary People (essay), New Statesman, 59, June 25, 1960.
• Our Friend Judith (short story), Partisan Review, 27, Summer 1960.


1961

• The Truth About Billy Newton (play) was produced Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The play is unpublished.
• African Interiors (essay), New Statesman, 62, October 27, 1961.
• Letter to the Editor, New Statesman, 62, November 3, 1961.
• Smart Set Socialists (essay), New Statesman, 62, December 1, 1961.
• Homage for Isaac Babel (short story), New Statesman, 62, December 15, 1961.


1962


Doris lessing, year 1962




• The Golden Notebook
London:
Michael Joseph, 1962, 1972, 1986
Penquin, 1964, 1972
Panther/Granada, 1973
Paladin/Grafton, 1989
New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1962, 1984
McGraw-Hill, 1963
Ballantine Books, 1968
Bantam, 1973
Caedmon (HarperCollins) (audio tape: excerpt from The Golden Notebook), 1986
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1994
San Bernardino, CA:
Borgo Press, 1994
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1999
• Play with a Tiger produced at the Comedy Theatre, London.
London:
Michael Joseph, 1962
Davis-Poynter Ltd, 1972
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1996 (Play with a Tiger and Other Plays)
• From the Black Notebook (excerpt from The Golden Notebook), Partisan Review, 29, Spring 1962.
• The New Man (short story), New Statesman, 64, September 7, 1962.
• Interview in Authors Talking.
• The Grass is Singing adapted as a television play.


1963

• A Man and Two Women
London:
MacGibbon & Kee, 1963
New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1963
Ballantine Books, 1965
Popular Library
Plume, 1976
Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 1984
• One Off the Short List (short story), Kenyon Review, 25, Spring 1963.
• A Letter from Home (short story), Partisan Review, 30, Summer 1963.
• A Room (short story), New Statesman, 66, August 2, 1963.
• My Father (essay), London Sunday Telegraph, September 1, 1963.
• What Really Matters (essay), Twentieth Century, 172, Autumn 1963.
• The New Man (short story), Voices.
• Mrs. Fortescue (short story), Winter's Tales 9.


1964

• African Stories
London:
Michael Joseph, 1964
New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1965
Ballantine Books, 1966
Popular Library, 1976
Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 1977, 1981
• Play with a Tiger produced in New York.
• An Unposted Love Letter (short story), published in Thy Neighbor's Wife, Twelve Original Variations on the Theme of Adultery, edited by James Turner; London: Cassell, 1964, Four Square, 1967; New York: Stein and Day, 1968
• All Seething Underneath (essay: My Father) abridged, Vogue Magazine, February 15, 1964.
• Zambia's Joyful Week (essay), New Statesman, 68, November 6, 1964.
• Interview, Counterpoint.


1965


Doris Lessing, year 1965




•  Landlocked, the fourth volume of Children of Violence
London:
MacGibbon & Kee, 1965
Panther, 1967
Panther, 1974
Grafton, 1990
HarperCollins, 1993
New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1966 (in one volume with A Ripple from the Storm)
Plume (New American Library), 1970 (reprinted by Plume/Penquin)
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1995
San Bernardino, CA:
Borgo Press, 1995
• Review of A. Hutchinson's Road to Ghana, African-English Literature.
• Little Tembi (short story), published in Modern Choice I, editor Eva Figes. London: Blackie.


1966

• Her translation of The Storm, a play by Alexander Ostrovsky, is produced by the National Theatre in London. Production of two original television plays, Please Do Not Disturb and Care and Protection. She collaborates on further television scripts based on works by Maupassant.

 
• The Black Madonna
London: Panther, 1966; Flamingo (HarperCollins)
• Winter in July
London: Panther, 1966; Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1993
• Allah Be Praised (review of The Autobiography of Malcolm X), New Statesman, 71, May 27, 1966.
• Here (poem), New Statesman, 71, June 17, 1966.
• Visit (poem), New Statesman, 72, November 4, 1966.
• Play with a Tiger, in Plays of the Sixties, vol. 1. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1966
• Care and Protection (play)
• Do Not Disturb (play)
• The Storm (from A. Ostrovsky's play)
• Between Men (play)
• To Room Nineteen (short story), published in The World of Modern FIction: European, editor Stephen Marcus. New York: Simon and Schuster.


1967


Doris Lessing, year 1967




• Particularly Cats
London:
Michael Joseph, 1967
Panther/Grafton 1979
New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1967
Signet, 1971
Simon & Schuster/Fireside, 1978
• A fourth television play is adapted from the short story, Between Men.
• BBC 2 broadcast of Play with a Tiger, producer: Michael Bakewell, director: Stuart Burge.
• She publishes statement in Authors Take Sides on Vietnam.
• Particularly Cats (excerpt), McCalls, 94, March 1967.
• A Small Girl Throws Stones at a Swan in Regents Park (poem), New Statesman, 74, November 24, 1967.
• Hunger the King (poem), New Statesman, 74, November 24, 1967.
• Omar Khayyam (essay), New Statesman, 74, December 15, 1967.
• Through the Tunnel (short story), published in Breadth of Danger: Fifty Tales of Peril and Fear by Masters of the Short Story, editor Eric Duthie. London: Odhams.


1968

•  Nine African Stories: With a Specially Written Introduction by The Author, Selected by Michael Marland; London: Longmans, (Selections from African stories)
• Three Plays - Includes The Long and the Short and the Tall and Each His Own Wilderness; Willis Hall, Editor, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1968, also includes Yes, and After by Michael Hastings
• Side Benefits of an Honorable Profession (short story), Partisan Review, 35, Fall 1968.
• Afterword in Oliver Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm, New York: Fawcett World Library.


1969


Doris Lessing, year 1969




• The Four-Gated City, the fifth volume of Children of Violence
London:
MacGibbon & Kee, 1969
Granada, 1972
Paladin, 1990
HarperCollins, 1993
New York:
Knopf, 1969
Bantam Books, 1970
Plume (Penquin), 1976
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1995
San Bernardino, CA:
Borgo Press, 1995
• Particularly Cats (excerpt), Cat Fancy, 12, March-April 1969.
• Particularly Cats (excerpt), Cat Fancy, 12, June 1969.
• A Few Doors Down (essay), New Statesman, 78, December 26, 1969.


1970Interview in New American Review 8 

1971


Doril Lessing, year 1971




• Briefing for a Descent into Hell
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1971
Panther, 1972
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1995
New York:
Knopf, 1971
Vintage Books (Random House), 1981
• Briefing for a Descent into Hell shortlisted for The Booker Prize.
• Ancient Ways to New Freedom (essay), Vogue, 158, September 15, 1971 and in The Diffusion of Sufi Ideas in the West, edited by L. Lewin; Boulder, Colorado: Keysign Press.
• Report on the Threatened City (short story, Playboy, 17, November 1971.
• Spies I Have Known (short story), Partisan Review, 38, Winter 1971.
• A Deep Darkness (review of Isak Dinisen's Shadows on the Grass), New Statesman, January 15, 1971.
• Ant's Eye View (essay on Eugene Marais's The Soul of the White Ant), New Statesman, January 29, 1971.
• The Ant Heap (short story), published in Great British Short Novels, editor R.D. Spector. New York: Bantam.


1972

• The Story of a Non-Marrying Man and Other Stories
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1972
Penguin Books, 1975
Grafton/Paladin, 1990
New York (American title The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories):
Knopf, 1972
Bantam Books, 1974
• What Looks Like an Egg and Is an Egg? (essay), New York Times Book Review, 77, May 7, 1972.
• In the World, Not of It, published in Encounter, August, 1972.
• An Old Woman and Her Cat (short story), published in New American Review 14, editor Theodore Solotaroff. New York: Simon and Schuster.
• Ancient Way to New Freedom (essay), Diffusion of Sufi Ideas in the West.
• Foreword, An Illfated People.
• Preface in reissue of the Golden Notebook.
• Postscript in Play with a Tiger.


1973


Doris Lessing, year 1973




• The Summer Before the Dark
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1973
Paladin, 1990
New York:
Knopf, 1973
Bantam, 1974
Vintage Books (Random House), 1983
• This Was the Old Chief's Country: Collected African Stories, Volume 1
• The Sun Between Their Feet:Collected African Stories, Volume 2
London:
Michael Joseph, 1973
Triad/Granada, 1979
Paladin, 1992
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1993
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1994
• The Singing Door, a one-act play written for a textbook anthology. Published in:
Second Playbill, ed. Alan Durband, London: Hutchinson.
and in Play with a Tiger and Other Plays, London: Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1996.
• Letters in The Novels of Doris Lessing.
• On The Golden Notebook (Preface to The Golden Notebook), Partisan Review, XL, I
• Vonnegut's Responsibility (essay), New York Times Book Review, February 4, 1973.
1974
• The Memoirs of a Survivor
London:
Octagon, 1974, 1985
Picador, 1976
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1995
New York:
Knopf, 1975
Bantam Books, 1976
Vintage Books (Random House), 1988
• A Small Personal Voice (collected essays)
London:
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1994
New York:
Knopf, 1974;
Vintage (Random House), 1975
• Letters in Doris Lessing Critical Studies.
• Play with a Tiger included in the anthology Plays By and About Women, edited by Victoria Sullivan and James Hatch, New York: Vintage Books/Random House, 1974.
• Introduction to Dusky Ruth and Other Stories by A. E. Coppard; Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1974


1975


Doris Lessing, year 1975




• Building a new cultural understanding with the people of the East, article in The Times, October 15, 1975.

 
• If you knew Sufi..., article in The Guardian (London), January 8, 1975.
• A Sunrise on the Veld, edited by Alan Duff; Series: Cambridge English language learning; London : Cambridge U.P., 1975


1976

• Received the French Prix Medicis for Foreigners.

 
• The story "No Witchcraft for Sale" was published in Sisters of Sorcery: Two Centuries of Witchcraft Stories by the Gentle Sex, Manley, Seon & Gogo Lewis. NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, Includes stories by Andre Norton, Dorothy Sayers, Doris Lessing and others. Cover illustrated by Edward Gorey.
• Doris Lessing: Selected Short Stories; Edited by Alan Cattell; Series:The Pegasus library; London: Harrap


1977

• Interview in The Author Speaks
• A Mild Attack of Locusts; Edited by Alan Duff; Series: Cambridge English language learning: level 5; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977


1978

• To Room Nineteen: Collected Stories, Volume One
• The Temptation of Jack Orkney: Collected Stories Volume Two
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1978
Granada, 1979
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1994
New York (In one volume, title: Stories):
Knopf, 1979
Vintage (Random House), 1980
• Dust jacket blurb for The House of Hunger by Marechera (Dambudzo), New York: Pantheon (1978)


1979


Doris Lessing, year 1979




• Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta, the first volume of Canopus in Argos: Archives
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1979
Granada/Grafton, 1981
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1994
New York:
Knopf, 1979
Vintage (Random House), 1981
Vintage International (Random House), 1992 - Canopus in Argos: Archives (all 5 novels in one volume, softcover)
• Letters in The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing.
• In the World, Not of It in The World of the Sufi.
• Included in Women Writing, An Anthology, Edited by Denys Val Baker, NY, with Weldon, Lavin, Lessing, O'Brien, Spark, Taylor, etc


1980


Doris Lessing, year 1980




•  The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five, the second volume of Canopus in Argos: Archives
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1980
Granada, 1981
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1994
New York:
Knopf, 1980
Vintage Books (Random House), 1981
Vintage International (Random House), 1992 - Canopus in Argos: Archives (all 5 novels in one volume, softcover)
• Introduction in Kalila and Dimna by Ramsay Wood; New York: Knopf
• Included in A Garland for Jack Lindsay; decorations by Charlotte Mensforth; St. Albans (Hertfordshire), Piccolo Press. Limited edition of 150 copies


1981

• The Sirian Experiments, the third volume of Canopus in Argos: Archives
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1981
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1994
New York:
Knopf, 1981
Vintage Books (Random House), 1982
Vintage International (Random House), 1992 - Canopus in Argos: Archives (all 5 novels in one volume, softcover)
• The Sirian Experiments shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
• Introduction in Learning How to Learn by Idries Shah, Octagon Press.
• Introduction in The Tale of the Four Dervishes and Other Sufi Titles
• Not A Very Nice Story (short story) included in the anthology: FINE LINES The Best of Ms. Fiction, Edited and with an by Ruth Sullivan, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• Film released: Memoirs of a Survivor, starring Julie Christie, directed by David Gladwell.


1982

• The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, the fourth volume of Canopus in Argos: Archives
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1982
Panther, 1981
Granada, 1983
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1994
New York:
Knopf, 1982
Vintage (Random House), 1983
Vintage International (Random House), 1992 - Canopus in Argos: Archives (all 5 novels in one volume, softcover)
• Film released: Killing Heat (based on The Grass is Singing) starring Karen Black and John Thaw. Written and Directed by Michael Raeburn.
• Our minds have become set in the apocalyptic mode, article in The Guardian (London), June 14, 1982.
• Letter to the editor, The Guardian (London), July 1, 1982.
• These Shores of Sweet Unreason, article in The Guardian (London), September 25, 1982.
• Interview in The Radical Imagination and the Liberal Tradition
• Introduction in First Among the Sufies, Life and Thought of Rabia al-Adawiyya by Widad El Sakkakini;ISHK.
• Review of Laurens Van der Post Book in Notebooks, Memoirs, Archives - Reading and Rereading Doris Lessing
• Reviews in Suffic Searches
• Letter to the editor, The Guardian (London), date not specified.
• Speech in Shakespeare-Preis
• Received the Shakespeare Prize of the West German Hamburger Stiftung and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature.
• Contributed to audio tape: An Ancient way to New Freedom, ISHK.


1983

• Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, the fifth volume of Canopus in Argos: Archives
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1983
Granada, 1984
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1994
New York:
Knopf, 1983
Vintage (Random House), 1984
Vintage International (Random House), 1992 - Canopus in Argos: Archives (all 5 novels in one volume, softcover)
• The Diary of a Good Neighbor (published under the pseudonym "Jane Somers")
London: Michael Joseph, 1983
New York: Knopf, 1983
• My Father in Fathers-Reflections by Daughters.
• Included in the anthology, The Dog Book: A Treasury of the Finest Appreciations Ever Penned About Dogs, Jerrold Mundis (ed.)
New York: Arbor House, 1983.
1984
• If the Old Could (published under the pseudonym "Jane Somers")
London: Michael Joseph, 1984
New York: Knopf, 1984
• Writing Under Another Name (article) & Jane Somers's Diaries (excerpt), London/New York:Granta #13, Autumn 1984.

 
• The Diaries of Jane Somers

(The two "Jane Somers" novels published in one volume under her own name)
London:
Michael Joseph, 1984
Penquin, 1985
New York:
Vintage (Random House), 1984
• Impertinent Daughters (excerpt), London/New York: Granta #14, Winter 1984.


1985


Doris Lessing, year 1985




• The Good Terrorist
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1985
Grafton, 1986
Paladin (Granada) 1990
New York:
Knopf, 1985
Vintage (Random House), 1986
• Prisons We Choose to Live Inside - The Massey Lectures Series: a series of 5 lectures broadcast on October 1985 as part of CBC Radio's "Ideas" series.
Canada:
CBC Enterprises, 1986
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1986 (cassettes of the lecture)
House of Anasi Press, 1991
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1987
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1993
New York:
Harper & Row, 1987
San Bernardino, CA:
Borgo Press, 1994
• The Good Terrorist shortlisted for The Booker Prize.
• Countdown to Terror, excerpt from The Good Terrorist, published in The Guardian (London), Saturday, September 7, 1985.
• Autobiography (Part Two): My Mother's Life (excerpt), London/New York: Granta #17, Autumn 1985.


1986

• This Was the Old Chief's Country, No Witchcraft for Sale, The New Man

Read by Doris Lessing (audio cassettes)
Spoken Arts, 1986 (2 cassettes)
 
 
• Received the W.H. Smith Literary Award and the Mondello Prize in Italy for The Good Terrorist
• Introduction to Kalila and Dimna: Tales for Kings and Commoners: Selected Fables of Bidpai; retold by Ramsay Wood; Inner Traditions International Ltd., 1986.


1987

• The Wind Blows Away Our Words
London: Picador, 1987
New York: Vintage/Random House, 1987
• Events in the Sky (essay), London/New York: Granta #22, Autumn, 1987.
• Received the Palmero Prize.
• Afghan accuracy, Letter to the Editor, The Guardian (London), April 17, 1987.
• Forward to The Essential Cat, by Thomas Lester; London: Grafton Books


1988


Doris Lessing, year 1988




• The Fifth Child
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1988
Grafton/Paladin, 1989
New York:
Knopf, 1988
Vintage (Random House), 1989
• Grinzane Cavour Prize in Italy for The Fifth Child.
• Among the Roses (short story), The Observer, July 24, 1988.
• Included in the anthology, Through Other Eyes : Animal Stories by Women, with Ursula Le Guin, Alice Walker, Annie Dillard; Crossing Press, 1988
• Three stories / Doris Lessing, Contemporary authors in signed limited editions; Helsinki : Eurographica, 1988, Limited ed. of 350 copies printed by Tipografia Nobili
• Collaborated with composer Philip Glass to create the opera: "The Making of the Representative for Planet 8" performed by The Houston Grand Opera. Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc., 1988


1989

•  Particularly Cats and More Cats (illustrated by Anne Robinson)
London: Michael Joseph, 1989
Oxford: ISIS Large Print, 1990
• The Doris Lessing Reader
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1989
Grafton/Paladin, 1991
New York:
Knopf, 1989
• Received Doctor of Letters, Honorary Degree from Princeton University.
• Zimbabwe mobilises the agents of change, article in The Independent (London), January 18, 1989.
• Included in Great Cat Tales, Edited by Lesley O'Mara, Illustrated by William Geldart; NY: Carroll & Graf, 1989


1990

•  Through The Tunnel (short story), Mankato, MN: Creative Education Inc.

 
• In fact, only a minority of journalists are any good (article), winter edition of the British Journalism Review on January 29, 1990.
• The Story of Two Dogs (short story) included in the anthology, The Literary Dog: Great Contemporary Dog Stories, Edited by Jeanne Schinto, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990


1991

• Particularly Cats... and Rufus (Illustrations by James McMullan, American edition only. Reissue of "Particuarly Cats" with addition of new chaper Rufus, the Survivor)
New York:
Knopf, 1991
London:
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1993 (Title: Particularly Cats and Rufus the Survivor)
• Introduction to reissue of Before My Time by Niccolo Tucci; Moyer Bell Limited, New York & London, 1991
• Film released: Un Homme Et Deux Femmes (A Man and Two Women), Director: Valerie Stroh, French 1991, 90mn, with Valerie Stroh, Lambert Wilson.
• Between the fax and the fiction, article in The Guardian (London), December 13, 1991.
• Notes for A Case History (short story) included in the anthology, Decades: The Sixties; Compiled by Janet and Andrew Goodwyn; Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1991


1992

Doris Lessing, year 1992
 
• London ObservedStories and Sketches
London
HarperCollins, 1992
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1993
New York (American title: The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches):
HarperCollins, 1992
Ultramarine Publishing Company, 1992 (limited edition of 50 signed copies, 12 in leather binding)
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1993
• African Laughter
London:
HarperCollins, 1992
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1993
New York:
HarperCollins, 1992
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1993
• "Language and the Lunatic Fringe" (article/essay), New York Times, Op Ed, June 26, 1992.
• Essay included in the anthology The Pleasure of Reading, edited by Antonia Fraser, London: Bloomsbury.


1993

• A play based on Memoirs of a Survivor was performed at The Festival Theatre.
• Included in the children's book anthology: Adventure Stories; chosen by Clive King, illustrated by Brian Walker; New York: Kingfisher Books, 1993.

An illustrated collection of adventure short stories and excerpts from longer works by a variety of authors, including Robert Graves, Doris Lessing, and Mark Twain.
• An Ant Heap (short story) included in the anthology, Classics of Modern Fiction : Twelve Short Novels; Edited by Irving Howe; Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, c1993
• A Woman on The Roof (short story) included in the anthology: Fiction; Compiled by R.S. Gwynn; New York: HarperCollins.


1994


Doris Lessing, year 1994




• Shadows on the Wall of the Cave (transcript of her talk on 19 January 1994)
London: British Library, 1994
• Conversations, edited by Earl Intersoll
Princeton:
Ontario Review Press, 1994
London: (British title: Putting the Questions Differently)
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1996
• Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
London
HarperCollins, 1994
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1995
New York:
HarperCollins, 1994
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1995
San Bernardino, CA:
Borgo Press, 1995
• Foreword in Mercury by Anna Kavan, London: Peter Owen Publishers.
• The Day Stalin Died (short story) published in the anthology: The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories, edited by Patricia Craig, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
• May 5, 1994: reviewed Idries Shah's The Commanding Self in The London Times.
• She reviewed The Lost Boat. Avant-Garde Fiction from China (Wellsweep Press, London, 1994) in INDEX on Censorship, Volume 23, May/June 1994.
• Unexamined Mental Attitudes Left Behind By Communism (essay) published in: Our Country, Our Culture: The Politics of Political Correctness, Edited by Edith Kurzweil and William Philips, Partisan Review Press, Boston, 1994
• Foreward to The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, edited by Ian Ousby, Cambridge University Press, second edition.

1995
• Playing the Game (a graphic novel illustrated by Charlie Adlard)
London: HarperCollins, 1995
• Spies I Have Known and Other Stories
London: Cascade/Collins Educational (HarperCollins), 1995
• Received Honorary Degree from Harvard University, June 8, 1995.
• Received James Tait Black Prize for best biography: Under My Skin.
• Received 1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Under My Skin.
• On critics' list for the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
• The Golden Notebook included in the exhibition "Books of the Century" at The New York Public Library's Center for the Humanities, May 20, 1995-July 13, 1996, and in The New York Public Library's Books of the Century, published by Oxford University Press
• Included in: All the Time in the World: An Anthology of Verse and Prose Celebrating Grandparenthood, Edited by Elizabeth Cairns, U.K.: Age Concern England, 1995.
• To Room Nineteen (short story) included in: The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 5th Edition, edited by R. V. Cassill, W.W. Norton & Company. Also includes an interview with Doris Lessing.
• Impertinent Daughters (essay) published in: The Granta Book of the Family, Edited by Bill Buford, New York: Granta Books (Penquin), 1995
• Introduction to The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead, New York: Everyman's Library, Knopf, 1995


1996

• Love, Again
London:
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1996
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1997
New York:
HarperCollins, 1996
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1997
• The Pit
London: Phoenix/Orion House, 1996
• Play with a Tiger and Other Plays

London: Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1996
• Through the Tunnel (short story) reprinted in Splash: Great Writing About Swimming, by Laurel Blossom (Editor) & George Plimpton (Introduction), U.S. & U.K: Ecco Press, 1996
• On the list of nominees for the Nobel Prize for Literature and Britain's Writer's Guild Award for Fiction.
• Contributed to an obituary for Idries Shah, London Daily Telegraph, November, 1996.
• Excerpt from Shikasta, published in the anthology, Virtually Now: Stories of Science, Technology and the Future, Edited by Jeanne Schinto. Persea Books.
• One Off the Short List (short story) included in: The Norton Anthology: Literature by Women, the Traditions in English, Second Edition, edited by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, New York/London: W. W. Norton & Company.


1997

• She collaborated with Philip Glass on a second opera, based on "The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five", which premiered in Heidelberg, Germany on May 10.
• Short story/essay (?) included in Sixty Years of Great Fiction from Partisan Review by William Phillips (Editor), Partisan Review, Boston, MA.
• Short story/essay (?) included in Glorious Cats : A Collection of Words and Paintings, by Helen Exley (Editor); Exley Gift Books
• The Stare (short story) published in the The New Yorker, July 7, 1997.
• The Roads of London (excerpt from Walking in the Shade), Granta # 58, Summer 1997.

 
• Walking in the Shade, Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962
London:
HarperCollins, 1997
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1998
New York:
HarperCollins, 1997
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1998
• Excerpt of story/novel (unknown) included in: The Plain Truth of Things: A Treasury: The Role of Values in a Complex World, edited by Colin Greer & Hergert Kohl; New York HarperCollins 1997.


1998

• An Evening with Doris Lessing (lecture & discussion), Partisan Review/1, Winter 1998, Volume LXV Number 1, Boston University.

 
• "Maudie e Jane" (Maudie and Jane) - play based on The Diaries of Jane Somers

Directed by Luciano Nattino
With: Judith Malina and Lorenza Zambon
Casa Degli Alfieri, Italy: Monday, March 30, 1998
 
• Report on the Threatened City (short story) reprinted in The Playboy Book of Science Fiction, Edited by Alice K. Turner, New York, Harperprism, 1998.
• Introduction to Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher (The Canon Pocket Bible Series), Edinburgh: Cannongate Books Ltd, 1998; New York: Grove Press, 1999
• Plants and Girls (short story) included in Mistresses of the Dark: 25 Macabre Tales by Master Storytellers; edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Denise Little & Robert Weinberg; Barnes & Noble, 1998.


1999


Doris Lessing, year 1999?




• Mara and Dann, an Adventure
London:
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1999
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 2000
New York:
HarperCollins, 1999
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 1999
• Short Story or Essay included in the anthology Her War Story : Twentieth-Century Women Write About War, edited by Sayre P. Sheldon; Southern Illinois University Press, June 1999.
• Problems, Myths and Stories, I.C.R. Monograph No: 36, London: Institute for Cultural Research, 1999
• Included in For the Love of Books : 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most by Ronald B. Shwartz (Editor); New York, Putnam, 1999
• A London View (essay), London/New York:Granta #65, Spring 1999.


2000
 

• A Letter from Home (short story) included in Other People's Mail, an Anthology of Letter Stories, Edited with an Introduction by Gail Pool; University of Missouri Press.
• Maudie e Jane, a play based on The Diaries of Jane Somers, performed March 15-20, 2000 at Theatro Duse, Bologna, Italy.
• Ben, in the World
London:
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 2000
New York:
HarperPerennial (HarperCollins), 2000
• The Old Age of El Magnificato
London:
Flamingo (HarperCollins), 2000
New York:
(Published as a reissue of Particularly Cats, with an additional chapter, "The Old Age of El Magnifico.") Burford Books, Short Hills, NJ, 2000

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http://lessing.redmood.com/portraits.html