Skip to content  88-year-old High School Dropout Wins Nobel
Prize for Literature  Doris Lessing returned home from visiting
her son in the hospital to find her front steps crowded with
reporters and photogaphers. When told she had won the Nobel
Prize for Literature, she was surprised. Later, she changed her
mind: “this has been going on for something like 40 years,”
referring to the number of times she has been mentioned as a
likely honoree. “Either they were going to give it to me
sometime before I popped off or not at all.” Her work ranges
from feminist novel to science fiction to opera libretto.  »
Read the NY Times article about her presence on the social
networking site.