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William Golding

British novelist, poet, and playwright (1911–1993)

Not to be confused with William Goldman.

For other people named William Golding, see William Golding (disambiguation).

Sir William Gerald GoldingCBE FRSL (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novelLord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.

As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988.^[1]^[2] He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.^[1] In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".^[3]

Biography

Early life

Son of Alec Golding, a science master at Marlborough Grammar School (1905 to retirement), and Mildred, née Curnoe,^[4] William Gold

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Lord of the Flies

1954

Lord of the Flies has entered the culture. Ralph, Jack and Piggy are archetypes of human fallibility, but most of all they are real characters, fully imagined and leaping to life off the page.

Lord of the Flies 60th anniversary book

For the 60th anniversary of the publication of Lord of the Flies, we asked Golding fans from around the world to submit their words, artwork, or projects on what Lord of the Flies means to them. The result is this beautiful ebook, designed by James Colman.

March 1954

As Lord of the Flies was being written…

In 1951 Golding was living in Salisbury with his wife Ann, and two children, David and Judy. Golding and Ann read to their children and the books were often island-based adventure stories. While sitting in front of the fire in their flat Golding said ‘Wouldn’t it be a good idea if I wrote a book about children on an island, children who would behave in the way children really would behave?’ This idea grew into Lord of the Flies.

The novel was rejected by a number of publish

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Golding, William

William Golding was born in 1911, in a Cornish village, and grew up in Newquay. His family were fairly forward-thinking and progressive for their time. His father was a schoolteacher who believed in some quite radical political ideas. He also had a strong faith in the sciences. They brought the young William up to think about the world for himself, and encouraged him to foster his own ideas and beliefs.

He studied first at Marlborough, an expensive boarding school, where he mainly focused on Physics and English. He continued his education at Brasenose College, Oxford. There he concentrated on English and, to satisfy his father’s wishes, Natural Sciences as well. Therefore, by the time he left university he had gained an intimate knowledge of English and Classical literature, coupled with a steely appreciation of the world of science. His first major book, a poetry collection, was published in 1934 – before he had even completed his degree.

In 1940, with Britain fighting an increasingly desperate war against Hitler’s Germany, Golding did his duty and e