William Golding

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.

ISBN	0571231632	Pages	592
ISBN13	9780571231638 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	895
Publisher	Faber and Faber	Published in	London
Imprint	Faber and Faber	Height (mm)	243
Format	Hardback	Width (mm)	160
Publication date	03 Sep 2009	Spine width (mm)	45
DEWEY	823.914	Academic level	General
DEWEY edition	DC22

	List of Illustrations
1	Beginning	1
2	Grandparents	3
3	Parents	7
4	The House	15
5	Childhood	18
6	Growing Up	30
7	Oxford	41
8	Drifting	59
9	The War	82
10	Teaching	111
11	Unpublished Novelist	130
12	Breakthrough	149
13	The Inheritors	170
14	Pincher Martin	190
15	The Brass Butterfly	206
16	Free Fall	213
17	Journalism and Difficulties with The Spire	236
18	America	252
19	The Spire	268
20	The Hot Gates and The Pyramid	286
21	Disaster	303
22	'The Jam' and a Breakdown	315
23	The Scorpion God and 'History Of A Crisis'	327
24	Gap Years	339
25	Darkness Visible	364
26	Rites of Passage	388
27	A Moving Target and The Paper Men	408
28	The Nobel Prize and An Egyptian Journal	430
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The Man Who Wrote "Lord of the Flies"

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