Lord of the Flies
Author - William Golding
Golding was born September 19th, 1911 and died June 19th 1993. He was an english novelist, playwright, and poet. He is best known for "Lord of the Flies" where he has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and also awarded the booker Prize for literature in 1980. He has also been responsible for the release of many other novels like, The Inheritors, Freefall, The Spire, The Pyramid, The Scorpion God, Darkness Visible, The Paper Man, and To the Ends of the Earth.
He spend his childhood growing up in Marlborough, Wiltshire. He went to Oxford in 1930 to study Natural Sciences for two years before transferring to English Literature. In September 1954, after being once rejected for his last book, Lord of the Flies was published. Golding won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1979, among the Booker and Nobel. In 1988 he was appointed as a Knight Bachelor.
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