Doris Lessing

Over the course of his illustrious career, Bob Dylan has appeared at the Grammys, the Golden Globes, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the MusiCares Person of the Year awards, the Kennedy Center Honors, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Critics' Choice Awards.

It is a quiet video, less than a half-minute long. It features no flourishes to speak of. Nothing chases, nothing runs, nothing gets blown away. It has no kittens doing kitten things. No cherubs or children peering wide-eyed into the dawn of their lives, to the delight of the camera. None of the things that often make a video go viral.

Nobel Prize-winning writer Doris Lessing was under surveillance for more than 20 years during her youth by British spies who took a dim view of her Communist beliefs and anti-racist activism, declassified intelligence files have revealed.

Doris Lessing, the Nobel prize-winning, free-thinking author, died on Sunday. She won the Nobel Literature prize in 2007.

Over the course of his illustrious career, Bob Dylan has appeared at the Grammys, the Golden Globes, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the MusiCares Person of the Year awards, the Kennedy Center Honors, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Critics' Choice Awards.

It is a quiet video, less than a half-minute long. It features no flourishes to speak of. Nothing chases, nothing runs, nothing gets blown away. It has no kittens doing kitten things. No cherubs or children peering wide-eyed into the dawn of their lives, to the delight of the camera. None of the things that often make a video go viral.

Nobel Prize-winning writer Doris Lessing was under surveillance for more than 20 years during her youth by British spies who took a dim view of her Communist beliefs and anti-racist activism, declassified intelligence files have revealed.

Doris Lessing, the Nobel prize-winning, free-thinking author, died on Sunday. She won the Nobel Literature prize in 2007.