William Golding

William Golding was born in 1911 and published a collection of verse in 1934. He was teaching at a school in Salisbury when the war called him into the navy, where he became an officer. He commanded a rocket-launching vessel at the Normandy landings, and said that he had learned during the war what one man can do to another. He returned to the same school from 1945 to 1961. He received the Nobel Prize in 1983 from a divided Academy, one of its members having made his opposition public. He died in 1993.

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• NovelLord of the FliesWilliam Golding · 1954Literature