NEW : The BBC CEO says Lessing had ` ` a fierce intellect and a warm heart '' Lessing ` ` passed away peacefully '' at her London home , he says . Author Doris Lessing , who won a Nobel Prize for her life of literature , died Sunday at age 94 , her publisher , HarperCollins , said . ` ` I was born to write , '' she said . Lessing won the Nobel prize in literature at the age of forty .
NEW : The BBC CEO says Lessing had ` ` a fierce intellect and a warm heart '' Lessing ` ` passed away peacefully '' at her London home , he says . ` ` I was born to write , '' she said . Lessing won the Nobel prize in literature at the age of forty .