William Golding
Nobel Prize winner William Golding left a rich but sparse addition to English literature. 
Best known for his novel The
Lord of the Flies, Golding wrote 12 novels, plays, essays, reviews, short stories, poems, and an extensive journal.
Born in Cornwell in 1911, Golding was the son of a schoolmaster. While Golding began writing at age 7, he was pushed by his parents into studying natural sciences and English at Oxford. Nonetheless, he published his first book of poems the year before he graduated.
After finishing school, he went on to be a playwright and then a teacher of English. During World War II he commanded a rocket ship in the Royal Navy. As part of his military service, he participated in the sinking of the Bismarck and the Normandy invasion.
In addition to the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983 for lifetime achievement, Golding was also awarded a Booker Prize and was knighted in 1988.
Golding died in 1993.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sea Trilogy |
Free Fall |
Rites of Passage |
The Hot Gates |
Close Quarters |
The Spire |
Fire Down Below |
The Pyramid |
Darkness Visible |
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Others: |
A Moving Target |
The Paper Men |
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The Inheritors |
An Egyptian Journal |
Pincher Martin |
The Double Tongue |
The Brass Butterfly |
