Sir William Golding was born on September 19th, 1911. He won the Nobel Prize for literature for his parables of the human condition in 1983. He attracted a cult of followers, especially among the youth of the post-World War II generation.
Golding’s first published novel was ‘Lord of the Flies’, the story of a group of schoolboys isolated on a coral island who revert to savagery.
‘The Inheritors’, set in the last days of Neanderthal man, is another story of the essential violence and depravity of human nature.
He was also awarded the Booker Prize for fiction in 1980 for his novel ‘Rites of Passage’, the first book in what became his sea trilogy, ‘To the Ends of the Earth’.
His later works include ‘Close Quarters’, ‘The Hot Gates’, ‘The Brass Butterfly’, ‘A Moving Target’, and ‘Fire Down Below’.
William Golding was knighted in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Golding died on 19th June, 1993 in England.
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