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 would go on to publish another eleven novels 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 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.
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William Gerald Golding 19 September 1911 St. Columb Minor, Newquay, Cornwall, UK
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Died |
19 June 1993 (aged 81) Cornwall, England
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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