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A Short Biography of Sir William Gerald Golding

Author Name:

Sir William Gerald Golding

Born As:

William Gerald Golding

Other Names:

Born:

19 Sep 1911

Died:

19 Jun 1993




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Selected Works:

Poems:
Poems - 1934

Plays:
The Brass Butterfly - 1958

Novels:

Lord of the Flies - 1954
The Inheritors - 1955
Pincher Martin - 1956
Free Fall - 1959
The Spire - 1964
The Pyramid - 1967
The Scorpion God - 1971
Darkness Visible - 1979
The Paper Men - 1984
To the Ends of the Earth - trilogy
Rites of Passage - 1980
Close Quarters
Fire Down Below - 1989
The Double Tongue - posthumous - 1995

Nonfiction:

The Hot Gates - 1965
A Moving Target - 1982
An Egyptian Journal - 1985

Unpublished Works:

Seahorse was written in 1948. It is a biographical account of sailing on the south coast of England whilst in training for D-Day.

Circle Under the Sea is an adventure novel about a writer who sails to discover archaeological treasures off the coast of the Scilly Isles.

Short Measure is a novel set in a British boarding school.                          
Wife Ann Brookfield, two children.                          
Awards:

Nobel Prize in Literature - 1983

Booker Prize - 1980.