William Golding
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.
Background
- Born in
- Newquay
- Educated at
- Marlborough Royal Free Grammar SchoolUniversity of OxfordBrasenose College
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University🏆 Nobel Prize in Literature🏆 Booker Prize🏆 James Tait Black Memorial Prize🏆 Knight Bachelor
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Trending topics shown first"He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet."
"The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet tw…"
"Jack stood up as he said this, the bloodied knife in his hand. The two boys faced each other. There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of …"
"I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men — they are far superior and always have been."
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Timeline
1911
Born
Birth1993
Died
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Family & Connections
- spouse:
- Ann Brookfield
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