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Other recipients are author Doris M. Lessing, engineering professor Mildred Dresselhaus, former Overseer John C. Whitehead and historian Helene Ahrweiler.
Doris Lessing
Lessing, best known for The Golden Notebook and the semi-autobiographical series The Children of Violence, was born in Persia of British parents. Her mother was a nurse, her father a World War I amputee who gained more his wife's pity than her love. Doris was called Tigger after...
The chapters on childhood are marvelously, sometimes frighteningly, detailed. Both parents had all their teeth out before leaving for Africa. It was considered a sort of prophylactic, but one that subjected them to a lifetime of discomfort. Tigger sewed, cooked, tended to animals routinely: there is a wonderfully precise description...
Salisbury social life was very lax. Lessing married the scion of a respectable family whom she did not love and produced two children. She walked out on that fledgling family to marry a Communist, Gottfried Lessing, with whom she had another child. Everyone drank, smoked and caroused. During her pregnancy...