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William Golding

Sir William Gerald Golding CBE FRSL (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British 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.

Not to be confused with William Goldman.

Sir

William Golding

CBE FRSL

William Gerald Golding
(1911-09-19)19 September 1911
Newquay, Cornwall, UK

19 June 1993(1993-06-19) (aged 81)
Perranarworthal, Cornwall, UK

Holy Trinity Church, Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, England

  • Schoolteacher
  • novelist
  • playwright
  • poet

Brasenose College, Oxford

As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988.[1][2] He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[1] In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[3]

(1934)

Poems

2005: Lord of the Flies (read by the author), Listening Library,  978-0-307-28170-8

ISBN

(2009). William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-8732-6.

Carey, Professor John

(2009). William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies. London: Faber and Faber Limited. ISBN 978-0-571-23163-8.

Carey, Professor John

Kendall, Tim. "William Golding's Great Dream." Essays in Criticism, Vol. 68, Issue. 4, October 2018, pp. 466–487. Oxford Academic (Website), . Accessed 3 June 2021.

https://academic.oup.com/eic/article-abstract/68/4/466/5126810?redirectedFrom=PDF

Crompton, Donald. A View from the Spire: William Golding's Later Novels. Basil Blackwell Publisher Ltd, Oxford, 1985. . ISBN 978-0-631-14911-8.

https://archive.org/details/viewfromspirew00crom/page/n5/mode/2up

L. L. Dickson. The Modern Allegories of William Golding (University of South Florida Press, 1990).  978-0-8130-0971-1.

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R. A. Gekoski and P. A. Grogan, William Golding: A Bibliography, London, André Deutsch, 1994.  978-0-233-98611-1.

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Golding, Judy. The Children of Lovers. Faber & Faber, 2012.  978-0-571-27342-3.

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Gregor, Ian and Kinkead-Weekes, Mark. William Golding: A critical Study. 2nd Revised Edition, Faber & Faber, 1984.  978-0-571-13259-1

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McCarron, Kevin. (2007) 'From Psychology to Ontology: William Golding's Later Fiction.' In: MacKay M., Stonebridge L. (eds) British Fiction After Modernism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. .

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230801394_15

McCarron, Kevin. William Golding (Writers and Their Work). 2nd Edition, Northcote House Publishers Ltd, 2006.  978-0-7463-1143-1.

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"Boys Armed with Sticks: William Golding's Lord of the Flies". Chapter in B. Schoene-Harwood. Writing Men. Edinburgh University Press, 2000.

Tiger, Virginia. William Golding: The Dark Fields of Discovery. Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1974.  978-0-7145-1012-5.

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Tiger, Virginia. William Golding: The Unmoved Target. Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2003.  978-0-7145-3082-6

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Ladenthin, Volker: Golding, Herr der Fliegen; Verne, 2 Jahre Ferien; Schlüter, Level 4 – Stadt der Kinder. In: engagement (1998) H. 4 S. 271–274.

BBC television interview from 1959

on Nobelprize.org

William Golding

by Mary Lynn Scott – Universal Pessimist, Cosmic Optimist

Interview

Official Website.

William Golding Ltd

by D. M. Thomas – Guardian – Saturday 10 June 2006 (Review Section)

Last Words An account of Golding's last evening

Official Facebook page

Nobel Prize Lecture

"William Golding's crisis"

at IMDb

William Golding

at University of Exeter Special Collections

William Golding