Author Doris Lessing Dies at 94 Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the "Golden Notebook" and dozens of other novels, has died at 94. Her publisher, HarperCollins, said the author of more than 55 works of fiction, opera, nonfiction and poetry, died early Sunday. She won the Nobel Literature prize in 2007 Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device