British novelist Doris Lessing smiles on the doorstep of her house in London in this October 11, 2007, file photo. The Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing, one of the most important English-language writers of the late 20th century, has died aged 94, her publisher said on November 17, 2013. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty (BRITAIN – Tags: SOCIETY PROFILE ENTERTAINMENT OBITUARY)