William Golding The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies

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Synopsis

William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. Afterwards he returned to being a schoolmaster in Salisbury. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was an immediate success, and was followed by a series of remarkable novels, including The Inheritors, Pincher Martin and The Spire. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, and was knighted in 1988. He died in 1993.

Book details

Edition:
Main
Author:
John Carey
ISBN:
9780571265084
Related ISBNs:
9780571231645
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2020-04-22
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2009
Copyright by:
John Carey, 2 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Biographies and Memoirs, Language Arts, Literature and Fiction, Nonfiction