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| Doris Lessing was born Doris May Taylor in Persia (now Iran) on October 22 1919.
Lessing left home when she was 15 and took her first job as a nursemaid. Her employer gave her sociology and politics books to read.
In June 1995 she received an Honorary Degree from Harvard University.
In January 2000 the National Portrait Gallery in London unveiled Leonard McComb's portrait of Doris Lessing.
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 |  | Reviewed by Dr. Juanita Elias, Leicester University Management Centre. Juanita is an ex-Warwick student/part-time teacher.
The Gift: New Writing for the NHS was launched as part of the "Writers at Warwick" programme held at the Arts Centre. The launch of the book on 15 May included readings from well-known author Doris Lessing and other writers.
Five different writers and poets entertained the audience with readings from The Gift as well as poetry and even a few songs.
The Gift is a major new anthology, which includes the work of well-known British writers alongside writings by NHS staff.
It was compiled by David Morley, the director of the creative writing programme at Warwick University and Peter Spilbury, a director of Birmingham health authority.
The book has already been distributed amongst NHS staff in Birmingham.
 I had never been to a "Writers at Warwick" event before, and found it to be a fascinating and enjoyable experience.
 | 听 | Dr. Juanita Elias, Book reviewer
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Doris Lessing was the first speaker of the evening. In her reading, entitled The Way Things Were she discussed an imaginary encounter between her mother, a nurse during WW1 and a modern day nurse in an NHS hospital.
The reading was fascinating, combining the real life story of her mother's nursing training and experiences of WW1 with Lessing's own recent visit to a sick relative in a London hospital.
Sitting by the bed of her relative, Lessing sees her mother enter the ward.
Using the words of her mother, who is overwhelmed by the advances in medical technology she sees on the ward, Lessing forces her audience to recognise the real benefits that the NHS has brought to so many of us.
| 听 |  | Author Maureen Freely
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I am a great fan of short stories and it was a real pleasure to hear these pieces being read by their authors.
Russell Celyn Jones stood and read a piece that recounted an experience of being hospitalised with a rare medical condition - a fear of standing up!
Not all of the authors spoke directly about the NHS, some of the readings involved the writers' experiences of healthcare in other parts of the world.
Maureen Freely spoke about the birth of her daughter in a hospital in New Mexico and Tim Reeves read a piece about taking a young child to hospital in Nigeria.
Andy Brown, the head of the creative writing programme at Exeter University, provided the poetry for the evening and Peter Blegvad provided the music. He also gave a reading about an accident involving a tree, a chain saw and some swimming goggles!
Follow the link to the left for the Warwick Arts Centre website for more information on the Writers at Warwick programme.
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