(1919– )
a British writer, born in Iran. Her early novels, e.g. The Grass is Singing (1950), used the background of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ), where she lived as a child. Many of her novels, including The Golden Notebook (1962), are concerned with social and political issues, especially relating to women. She has also written science fiction novels. Her later novels include The Fifth Child (1988), Love, Again (1996) and Ben, in the World (2000). She has written two books about her life, Under My Skin (1994) and Walking in the Shade (1997), and a collection of ‘views and reviews’, Time Bites (2004).