Doris Lessing was born on October 22, 1919 in Kermanshah, Persia [now Iran] as Doris May Tayler. She was a writer, known for Adore (2013), Maupassant (1963) and Memoirs of a Survivor (1981). She was married to Gottfried Anton Nicolai Lessing and Frank Charles Wisdom. She died on November 17, 2013 in London, England.