William Golding

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born

September 19, 1911 in St. Columb Minor, England, The United Kingdom

died

June 19, 1993

gender

male

website

http://www.william-golding.co.uk/

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. He was also 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.

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

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Books by William Golding

Average rating: 3.57 · 656,481 ratings · 11,034 reviews · 134 distinct works

	Lord of the Flies 3.56 avg rating — 647,077 ratings — published 1954 — 228 editions	My rating:
	The Inheritors 3.48 avg rating — 760 ratings — published 1955 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Rites of Passage 3.53 avg rating — 555 ratings — published 1980 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin 3.62 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 1956 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Spire 3.51 avg rating — 472 ratings — published 1964 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Darkness Visible: A Novel 3.60 avg rating — 326 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	Free Fall 3.73 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 1959 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Paper Men 3.24 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 1984 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Pyramid 3.37 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Double Tongue 3.22 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1995 — 12 editions	My rating:

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Series by William Golding

To the Ends of the Earth (3 books)
by William Golding

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Quotes by William Golding

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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“Sucks to your ass-mar!”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

tags: beast , hallucination , simon

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Polls

What frequently challenged or banned children's or young adult book (or book about banning books) should we read in May and June?

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

21 votes, 27.3%

Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks

14 votes, 18.2%

Memoirs of a Bookbat by Kathryn Lasky (about banning books)

11 votes, 14.3%

Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

8 votes, 10.4%

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler

8 votes, 10.4%

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

6 votes, 7.8%

Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry

5 votes, 6.5%

Girls and Sex by Wardell Baxter Pomeroy

3 votes, 3.9%

The Stupids Step Out by Harry Allard

1 vote, 1.3%

Running Loose by Chris Crutcher

0 votes, 0.0%

77 total votes

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