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.
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