Skip to content
Portrait of William Golding

William Golding

(1911–1993) Writer United Kingdom

263 quotes in 863 categories

William Golding was a writer from the United Kingdom, best known for Lord of the Flies.

Quick Facts About William Golding

Born
September 19, 1911
Died
June 19, 1993
Nationality
United Kingdom
Profession
Writer
Notable works
Lord of the Flies
Known for
Lord of the Flies, To the Ends of the Earth
Spouse
Ann Brookfield

About William Golding

Sir William Gerald Golding 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. Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Nobel Prize in Literature Booker Prize James Tait Black Memorial Prize Knight Bachelor Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University

Quotes by William Golding · Page 6

William Golding by topic