Doris Lessing, the author of “The Golden Notebook” and winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, died this weekend, at age ninety-four. Lessing published a number of pieces in The New Yorker. Her first, in 1955, was “A Mild Attack of Locusts,” a short story set in South Africa. Lessing didn’t just publish short stories, though: in 1956, she contributed a memoir about hunting, called “Myself as Sportsman”; in 1987, she published “The Catastrophe,” a reported story about Afghan refugees in Peshawar.
All of Lessing’s pieces are available to subscribers in our online archive, and several of them—“A Mild Attack of Locusts,” “Myself as Sportsman,” and a 1997 short story, “The Stare”—are available to everyone. We hope you enjoy them.
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