biography
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Golding, Sir William (Gerald)
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| lived:
| (1911–93)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born near Newquay, Cornwall, SW England, UK. He studied at Oxford, became a teacher, served in the navy in World War 2, then returned to teaching until 1961. Poems (1934) was followed by his first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), widely considered to be one of the greatest English-language novels of the 20th-c. Other books quickly followed, such as The Inheritors (1955), Pincher Martin (1956), Free Fall (1959), and The Spire (1964), each confirming Golding's power to create contemporary myth. Later novels include Darkness Visible (1979) and the trilogy Rites of Passage (1980, Booker), Close Quarters (1987), Fire Down Below (1989), republished under the general title To The Ends of the Earth in 1991. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, and knighted in 1988. |
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