The person referred to in the passage is the author of `The Golden Notebook`, `Memoirs of a Survivor`, and `The Summer Before the Dark`. She is also recognized as the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Option 1, Alice Munro, is not the correct answer as she is a Canadian author known for her short stories, and there is no mention of her in the passage.

Option 3, Herta Muller, is also not the correct answer because she is a Romanian-German writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009, but she is not known for the mentioned works.

Option 4, Elfriede Jelinek, is not the correct answer either. She is an Austrian playwright and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, but her famous works do not include `The Golden Notebook`, `Memoirs of a Survivor`, or `The Summer Before the Dark`.

Therefore, the correct answer is option 2, Doris Lessing, who fits all the criteria mentioned in the passage.