Date of birth
19 Sep 1911
116 years ago at
St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England, UK
William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding (September 19, 1911 – June 19, 1993) was a British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth.
Biography
In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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