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William Golding
AuthorBooks · Second hand1911-1993
Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, Golding was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Birth
1911
Death
1993
First book
1934
Years writing
92
William Golding was born in 1911 in the picturesque town of Newquay, England.
His mother, Mildred, was an active figure in the suffrage movement for women's right to vote.
From the age of seven, Golding already demonstrated an early vocation for writing.
His masterpiece, Lord of the Flies, is considered a disturbing portrait of the fragility of civilization.
Throughout his prolific career, he wrote over one hundred works spanning genres such as novels, poetry, and science fiction.