Under My Skin (book)

First edition (publ. HarperCollins)

Under My Skin: Volume I of my Autobiography, to 1949 (1994) was the first volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography, covering the period of her life from birth in 1919 to leaving Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1949.

Although Lessing describes her fiction as not autobiographical, in this volume she makes explicit comparisons between herself and the leading character, Martha Quest, of the Children of Violence series.^[1]

The second volume of Lessing's autobiography appeared in 1997: Walking in the Shade: Volume II of my Autobiography (1949-1962)

References

Works by Doris Lessing Novels The Grass Is Singing Martha Quest The Golden Notebook The Four-Gated City Memoirs of a Survivor Shikasta The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five The Sirian Experiments The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire The Good Terrorist The Fifth Child Ben, in the World The Sweetest Dream The Cleft Short stories "Through the Tunnel" "Flight" Collections, including essays Prisons We Choose to Live Inside The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels Autobiography Under My Skin Walking in the Shade Science fiction Canopus in Argos The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 Other Alfred and Emily