Doris Lessing in The New Yorker: The New Yorker Doris Lessing, the author of "The Golden Notebook" and winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, died this weekend, at age ninety-four. Lessing published a number of pieces in The New Yorker. Her first, in 1955, was "A Mild Attack of Locusts," a short story set in South Africa. Lessing didn't just publish short stories, though: in 1956, she contributed a memoir about hunting, called "Myself as Sportsman"; in 1987, she published "The Catastrophe," a reported story about Afghan refugees in Peshawar. All of Lessing's pieces are available to subscribers in our online archive, and several of them - "A Mild Attack of Locusts," "Myself as Sportsman," and a 1997 short story, "The Stare" - are available to everyone. We hope you enjoy them. Photograph by Louis Monier/Getty.