num_pages: 419
description: The author recounts her childhood in Persia and Southern Rhodesia, difficult adolescence, two marriages, political activity, and growth as a writer
language: English
title: Under My Skin:  Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
titlecomplete: Under My Skin:  Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
genres: Literature, History, Autobiography, Memoir, Nobel Prize, Biography Memoir, Africa, Biography, Nonfiction, Zimbabwe
ratings_count: 803
series: Doris Lessing's autobiography
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Biography, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Biography
publisher: HarperCollins