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The Grass is Singing

Fellows Find: Doris Lessing correspondence deepens insight into The Grass is Singing

October 15, 2015 - Harry Ransom Center

Doris Lessing, unknown photographer. Ca. 1950s.

“Have you had a look in the Knopf collection?” Rick Watson, the head of reference services at the Ransom Center, sounded casual, and I wasn’t sure I had time to take the detour he was suggesting.

I spent a month at the Ransom Center last year, working mainly with the extensive Doris Lessing archive. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: Doris Lessing correspondence deepens insight into The Grass is Singing

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