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William Golding


(William Gerald Golding)
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British novelist William Golding wrote the critically acclaimed classic Lord of the Flies, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. 

Golding spent the last few years of his life quietly living with his wife, Ann Brookfield, at their house near Falmouth, Cornwall, where he continued to toil at his writing.

On June 19, 1993, Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall. He was survived by his wife and their two children, David and Judith. After Golding passed away, his completed manuscript for The Double Tongue was published posthumously.

Among the most successful novels of Goldings writing career were Rites of Passage (winner of the 1980 Booker McConnell Prize), Pincher Martin, Free Fall and The Pyramid. While Golding was mainly a novelist, his body of work also includes poetry, plays, essays and short stories.
 

Awards: Nobel (1983), Booker (1980), James Tait Black (1979)  see all

Genres: Historical, Young Adult Fiction
 
Series
To the Ends of the Earth
   1. Rites of Passage (1980)
   2. Close Quarters (1987)
   3. Fire Down Below (1989)
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Novels
   Lord of the Flies (1954)
   The Inheritors (1955)
   Pincher Martin (1956)
     aka The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin
   Free Fall (1959)
   The Spire (1964)
   The Pyramid (1967)
   Darkness Visible (1979)
   The Paper Men (1984)
   The Double Tongue (1995)
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Collections
   Poems (poems) (1934)
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Books containing stories by William Golding

Awards
1983 Nobel Prize in Literature
1980 Booker Prize : Rites of Passage
1979 James Tait Black Memorial Prize : Darkness Visible

Award nominations
1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Darkness Visible


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