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A year ago, Doris Lessing made the startling announcement that she had recently written two novels published under the pseudonym of Jane Somers. She said that she had engineered this hoax to demonstrate how hard it is for new authors to gain an audience. She also wanted an unprejudiced response...
Anita Krusko Somers, N. Y.
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Lessing decided to end the ruse after word of Somers' true identity began to leak out. But she is amazed that none of the books' readers or reviewers were able to identify her prose. "We thought we couldn't possibly get away with it," she told TIME...
True to form, Lessing is staying one step ahead of her critics. She has finished a new novel, her 19th, to be published next year. It concerns a young Englishwoman who drifts into terrorist activity, an apparent return to the political subject matter of Lessing's earlier work. Despite...