William Golding

William Golding was born in 1911 at his grandmother's house in Newquay, Cornwall, and grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where his father taught science at the grammar school William attended. His mother was a campaigner for women's suffrage. In 1930 he went to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he studied natural sciences before switching to English. He became a schoolmaster, and in 1939 he married Ann Brookfield, an analytical chemist. From 1940 he taught at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury, but in December of that year he joined the Royal Navy. In the war he took part in the hunt for the battleship Bismarck and, on D-Day, commanded a landing craft that fired rockets onto the Normandy beaches. His first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), about a group of schoolboys stranded on an island who descend into savagery, was accepted by Faber and Faber after several rejections. He went on to write The Inheritors and other novels, and Rites of Passage won the Booker Prize in 1980. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983 and was knighted in 1988. He died in Cornwall in 1993.

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