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William Golding

1911 - 1993

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Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, Golding was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Golding is the 329th most popular writer (down from 284th in 2019), the 313th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 197th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Writer.

In 1954, William Golding published his debut novel, Lord of the Flies. The novel tells the story of a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and try to govern themselves, with disastrous results.

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Among writers, William Golding ranks 329 out of 7,302. Before him are Marguerite de Navarre, Nadine Gordimer, Paul Celan, Colette, Anne Brontë, and André Malraux. After him are Callimachus, Jaggi Vasudev, Apollonius of Rhodes, Philip K. Dick, Michael Ende, and Saadi Shirazi.

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Among people born in 1911, William Golding ranks 14. Before him are Juan Manuel Fangio, Władysław Szpilman, Luis Walter Alvarez, Todor Zhivkov, Czesław Miłosz, and Nino Rota. After him are Mikhail Botvinnik, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Louise Bourgeois, Milovan Đilas, William Howard Stein, and Robert Taylor. Among people deceased in 1993, William Golding ranks 8. Before him are Audrey Hepburn, Federico Fellini, Ferruccio Lamborghini, Rudolf Nureyev, James Hunt, and Baudouin of Belgium. After him are Erich Hartmann, Frank Zappa, Turgut Özal, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, and Polykarp Kusch.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Golding ranks 313 out of 8,785. Before him are Michael York (1942), Thomas Newcomen (1663), Louise, Princess Royal (1867), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881), and Anne Brontë (1820). After him are Thomas Reid (1710), Roger Waters (1943), Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901), Robert Shaw (1927), Kate Bush (1958), and Charlotte, Princess Royal (1766).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Golding ranks 31. Before him are W. H. Auden (1907), C. S. Lewis (1898), J. K. Rowling (1965), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), and Anne Brontë (1820). After him are Roald Dahl (1916), John Keats (1795), Jane Hawking (1944), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), Christopher Marlowe (1564), and William Wordsworth (1770).

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