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William Golding


Born
in St. Columb Minor, Cornwall
September 19, 1911

Died
June 19, 1993

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Literature & Fiction

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People note British writer Sir William Gerald Golding for his dark novels, especially The Lord of the Flies (1954); he won the Nobel Prize of 1983 for literature.

People best know this British novelist, poet, and playwright for this novel. Golding spent two years, focusing on sciences, in Oxford but changed his educational emphasis to English, especially Anglo-Saxon, literature.

During World War II, he served as part of the royal Navy, which he left five years later. This experience strongly influenced his future novels. Later, he taught and focused on writing. Classical Greek literature, such as that of Euripides, and The Battle of Maldon , an Anglo-Saxon oeuvre of unknown author influenced him.

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Average rating: 3.69 · 2,771,826 ratings · 52,965 reviews · 147 distinct works • Similar authors
Lord of the Flies
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3.57 avg rating — 2,248 ratings — published 1956 — 85 editions
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Darkness Visible
3.50 avg rating — 1,492 ratings — published 1979 — 59 editions
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Free Fall
3.66 avg rating — 1,251 ratings — published 1959 — 104 editions
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3.49 avg rating — 962 ratings — published 1995 — 48 editions
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3.33 avg rating — 933 ratings — published 1967 — 53 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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