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William Golding


Born
in Newquay, Cornwall, England
September 19, 1911

Died
June 19, 1993

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Genre
Fiction

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Euripides, R.M. Ballantyne ...more


Sir William Gerald Golding was an Engish novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord 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. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". ...more

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Average rating: 3.7 · 3,243,032 ratings · 70,774 reviews · 218 distinct works • Similar authors
Lord of the Flies
3.70 avg rating — 3,211,564 ratings — published 1954 — 306 editions
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The Inheritors
3.51 avg rating — 5,620 ratings — published 1955 — 7 editions
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3.50 avg rating — 4,238 ratings — published 1964 — 28 editions
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3.55 avg rating — 2,610 ratings — published 1956 — 98 editions
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Darkness Visible
3.49 avg rating — 1,784 ratings — published 1979 — 18 editions
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Free Fall
3.67 avg rating — 1,485 ratings — published 1959 — 6 editions
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The Double Tongue
3.46 avg rating — 1,151 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
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3.31 avg rating — 1,090 ratings — published 1967 — 2 editions
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“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
― William Golding
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