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Sir William Gerald Golding CBE FRSL (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime.
William Golding, 81, British novelist (Lord of the Flies, To the Ends of the Earth, The Inheritors), heart failure. [77] Abraham Kaplan, 75, American philosopher. [78] James Benton Parsons, 81, United States district judge [79] Franco Scaglione, 76, Italian automobile coachwork designer.
To the Ends of the Earth is a trilogy of nautical novels—Rites of Passage (1980), Close Quarters (1987), and Fire Down Below (1989)—by British author William Golding.Set on a former British man-of-war transporting migrants to Australia in the early 19th century, the novels explore themes of class and man's reversion to savagery when isolated, in this case, the closed society of the ship's ...
William Golding had been shortlisted by the Nobel committee ten years earlier, in 1973, as one of the final six contenders for the prize that year. [3] In 1983, William Golding and Claude Simon were the main candidates for the prize. An anonymous source in the Swedish Academy revealed that two rounds of voting were required before Golding ...
A cold case from 1959 involving a missing 7-year-old came to a conclusion last week through DNA identification, decades after charges against the boy's adoptive parents were dropped for lack of ...
William Friend and Bevin Prince. Courtesy Bevin Prince/Instagram Mourning a terrible loss. Bevin Prince is speaking out after the death of her husband, William Friend, following a fatal lightning ...
Roger Ailes' cause of death has been revealed, just hours after his unexpected death at the age of 77 on Thursday. The Palm Beach Medical Examiner announced on Thursday afternoon that Ailes died ...
The Double Tongue is a novel by William Golding. It was found in draft form after his death and published posthumously. [1] Golding's final novel tells the story of the Pythia, the priestess of Apollo at Delphi. [1] Arieka prophesies in the shadowy years of the 1st century BC when the Romans were securing their grip on the tribes and cities of ...