The Resume

(October 22, 1919-November 17, 2013)
Born in Kermanshah, Iran
Birth name was Doris May Tayler
Wrote 'The Grass Is Singing' (1950), the 'Children of Violence' series (1952-69), 'The Golden Notebook' (1962), 'Briefing for a Descent into Hell' (1971), the 'Canopus in Argos' series (1979-83), 'The Good Terrorist' (1985), 'The Fifth Child' (1988), 'Love, Again' (1996) and 'The Cleft' (2007)
Won the Nobel Prize for Literature (2007)

Why she might be annoying:

At 14, she left school on sick leave and refused to go back.
After being married and divorced twice, she commented that marriage 'is not one of my talents.'
She was a Communist.
After she won the Nobel Prize, critic Harold Bloom said, 'I find her work for the past 15 years quite unreadable... fourth-rate science-fiction.'

Why she might not be annoying:

She said of her childhood, raised by British parents in Rhodesia, 'you couldn't have a luckier combination' for a future novelist.
She left the Communist movement (1954).
Because of her outspokenness on apartheid, she and her books were banned from South Africa and Rhodesia (1956).
After critics attacked her portrayal of female anger and aggression in 'The Golden Notebook,' she said 'Apparently what many women were thinking, feeling and experiencing came as a great surprise.'
She said, 'Science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 07]
• I Did Not Graduate High School [J-M]
• I Died in 2013 (Ranked: 94)
• I Got a Pet Cat or Twenty
• I Write Bildungsroman
• I'm a Communist
• Little People [5'3 and Shorter] - Female L-Z
• Look at Me and My Pet
• Look at My Typewriter
• Nobel Prize for Literature
• Profiles 21251-21500 (Ranked: 21429)
• Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels [Authors]
• World Literature Today Top 40 [2001] (Ranked: 1962)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 132 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 26 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 114 Votes: 55.26% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 9 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 12 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 141 Votes: 65.96% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 20 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 45 Votes: 57.78% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 25 Votes: 56.00% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 28 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 51 Votes: 56.86% Annoying