During the 1970s, at the height of the feminist movement, Doris Lessing’s novel The Golden Notebook became required reading for women’s studies students.

But despite writing one of the great feminist bibles, Lessing, who died Sunday in London at age 94, rejected the “feminist” label for herself.

The Swedish Academy had a different view when it awarded Lessing the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007. Then 87, she was the oldest writer to win the prize.

“The burgeoning feminist movement saw (The Golden Notebook) as a pioneering work, and it belongs to the handful of books that informed the 20th-century view of the male-female relationship,” the academy said.

The academy also praised Lessing’s “skepticism, fire and visionary power.” More.

See: USA Today

Also see Doris Lessing dies aged 94

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