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William Golding

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Born: September 18 1911

Died: 1818 06 19931993

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Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his 1954 novel Lord of the Flies. Golding spent two years in Oxford focusing on sciences; however, he changed his educational emphasis to English literature, especially Anglo-Saxon.

During World War II, he was part of the Royal Navy which he left five years later. His bellic experience strongly influenced his future novels. Later, he became a teacher and focused on writing. Some of his influences are classical Greek literature, such as Euripides, and The Battle of Maldon, an Anglo-Saxon oeuvre whose author is unknown.

The attention given to Lord of the Flies, Golding's first novel, by college students in the 1950s and 1960s drove literary critics' attention to it. He was awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983 and was knighted in 1988.

In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

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William Golding

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Books from William Golding

Lord of the Flies

The Inheritors

Rites of Passage

The Spire

Darkness Visible

Free Fall

The Pyramid

The Paper Men

The Double Tongue

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To the Ends of the Earth

Pincher Martin

Kule

Rites of Passage

Serbest Düşüş

A Moving Target

Fire Down Below

Lord of the Flies (SparkNotes Literature Guides)

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