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Sir William Gerald Golding

September 19, 1911, St. Columb Minor, near Newquay, Cornwall, England—died June 19, 1993, Perranarworthal

He was brought up to be a scientist, but revolted. After two years at Oxford, he read English literature instead, and became devoted to Anglo-Saxon. He was present off the French coast for the D-Day invasion, and later at the island of Walcheren. After the war he returned to teaching, and began to write again.

genre

Allegory and Adventure

Most of his writings are based on his life experiences, dealing with the phenomenon of human life and nature.

style:

wORKS

The Scorpion God (197) Darkness Visible (1979) Rites of Passage (1980) The Paper Men (1984) An Egyptian Journal (1985) Close Quarters (1987) Fire Down Below (1989)

Lord of the Flies (1954) The Inheritors (1955) Pincher Martin (1956) The Brass Butterfly (1958) Free Fall (1959) The Spire (1964) The Hot Gates (1965) The Pyramid (1967)

NOTABLE WORK

Tells the story of a group of young boys who find themselves alone on a deserted island. They develop rules and a system of organization, but without any adults to serve as a civilizing impulse, the children eventually become violent and brutal.

Civilization versus Savagery. When the boys first arrive on the island, they attempt to act like proper Englishmen, but their society quickly desecrates under the pressure and stress of the need to survive.

THEME

*Nobel Prize in Literature (1983) *Booker Prize (1980) *James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1979)

AWARDS

REFERENCES: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. (n.d). William Golding British novelist. Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Golding William Golding - Biography. (n.d). Nobelprize.org. <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1983/golding-bio.html> LiteraryDevices Editors. (n.d). William Golding. http://literarydevices.net/william-golding/