William Golding - wikipedia William Golding For other people named William Golding, see William Golding ( disambiguation ). Not to be confused with William Goldman, the American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. Sir William Golding Golding in 1983 William Gerald Golding ( 1911 - 09 - 19 ) 19 September 1911 Newquay, Cornwall, England 19 June 1993 ( 1993 - 06 - 19 ) ( aged 81 ) Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England Occupation Schoolteacher Novelist Playwright Poet Nationality British Alma mater Oxford University Genre Survivalist fiction Robinsonade Adventure Sea story Science fiction Essay Historical fiction Stageplay Poetry Notable works Lord of the Flies, Rites of Passage Notable awards 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature 1980 Booker Prize Signature Sir William Gerald Golding CBE ( 19 September 1911 -- 19 June 1993 ) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel Lord of the Flies, he won a Nobel Prize in Literature and was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. Golding was knighted in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of `` The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 ''. Brasenose College, Oxford offers a non-stipendiary William Golding Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Marriage and family 1.3 War service 1.4 Death 2 Career 2.1 Writing success 2.2 Fiction 3 List of works 3.1 Poetry 3.2 Drama 3.3 Novels 3.4 Non-fiction 3.5 Unpublished works 4 Audiobooks 5 References 6 Sources 7 Further reading 8 External links Biography Early life Plaque at Bishop Wordsworth 's School, Salisbury William Golding was born in his grandmother 's house, 47 Mount Wise, Newquay, Cornwall. The house was known as Karenza, the Cornish language word for love, and he spent many childhood holidays there. He grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where his father ( Alec Golding ) was a science master at Marlborough Grammar School ( 1905 to retirement ), the school the young Golding and his elder brother Joseph attended. His mother, Mildred ( Curnoe ), kept house at 29, The Green, Marlborough, and was a campaigner for female suffrage. Golding 's mother, who was Cornish and whom he considered `` a superstitious celt '', used to tell him old Cornish fairy tales from her own childhood. In 1930 Golding went to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he read Natural Sciences for two years before transferring to English Literature. Golding took his B.A. degree with Second Class Honours in the summer of 1934, and later that year a book of his Poems was published by Macmillan & Co, with the help of his Oxford friend, the anthroposophist Adam Bittleston. He was a schoolmaster teaching English & music at Maidstone Grammar School 1938 - 1940 and then teaching Philosophy and English in 1939, then just English from 1945 to 1961 at Bishop Wordsworth 's School, Salisbury, Wiltshire. Marriage and family Golding married Ann Brookfield ( 1913 - 1995 ), an analytical chemist, on 30 September 1939. They had two children, David ( born 1940 ) and Judith ( born July, 1945 ). War service During World War II, Golding joined the Royal Navy in 1940. He served in a destroyer which was briefly involved in the pursuit and sinking of the German battleship Bismarck. He also participated in the invasion of Normandy on D - Day, commanding a landing ship that fired salvoes of rockets onto the beaches, and was in action at Walcheren in which 23 out of 24 assault craft were sunk. Death In 1985, Golding and his wife moved to Tullimaar House at Perranarworthal, near Truro, Cornwall. He died of heart failure eight years later on 19 June 1993. His body was buried in the parish churchyard of Bowerchalke, Wiltshire ( near the Hampshire and Dorset county border ). On his death he left the draft of a novel, The Double Tongue, set in ancient Delphi, which was published posthumously. His son David ( born 1940 ) continues to live at Tullimaar House. Career Writing success In September 1953, after many rejections from other publishers, Golding sent a manuscript to Faber & Faber and was initially rejected by their reader. His book, however, was championed by Charles Monteith, a new editor at the firm. Monteith asked for some changes to the text and the novel was published in September 1954 as Lord of the Flies. After moving in 1958 from Salisbury to nearby Bowerchalke, he met his fellow villager and walking companion James Lovelock. The two discussed Lovelock 's hypothesis, that the living matter of the planet Earth functions like a single organism, and Golding suggested naming this hypothesis after Gaia, the goddess of the earth in Greek mythology. His publishing success made it possible for Golding to resign his teaching post at Bishop Wordsworth 's School in 1961, and he spent that academic year in the United States as writer - in - residence at Hollins College, near Roanoke, Virginia. Golding won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1979, and the Booker Prize in 1980. In 1983 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and was according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography `` an unexpected and even contentious choice ''. In 1988 Golding was appointed a Knight Bachelor. In September 1993, only a few months after his sudden death, the First International William Golding Conference was held in France, where Golding 's presence had been promised and was eagerly expected. Despite his success, Golding `` was abnormally thin - skinned when it came to criticism of his work. He simply could not read even the mildest reservation and on occasion left the country when his books were published. '' Fiction His first novel, Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ; film, 1963 and 1990 ; play, adapted by Nigel Williams, 1995 ), describes a group of boys stranded on a tropical island reverting to savagery. The Inheritors ( 1955 ) shows `` new people '' ( generally identified with Homo sapiens sapiens ), triumphing over a gentler race ( generally identified with Neanderthals ) by deceit and violence. His 1956 novel Pincher Martin records the thoughts of a drowning sailor. Free Fall ( 1959 ) explores the issue of free choice as a prisoner held in solitary confinement in a German POW camp during World War Two looks back over his life. The Spire ( 1964 ) follows the building ( and near collapse ) of a huge spire onto a medieval cathedral ( generally assumed to be Salisbury Cathedral ) ; the spire symbolizing both spiritual aspiration and worldly vanity. In his 1967 novel The Pyramid three separate stories in a shared setting ( a small English town in the 1920s ) are linked by a narrator, and The Scorpion God ( 1971 ) consists of three novellas, the first set in a prehistoric African hunter - gatherer band ( ' Clonk, Clonk ' ), the second in an ancient Egyptian court ( ' The Scorpion God ' ) and the third in the court of a Roman emperor ( ' Envoy Extraordinary ' ). The last of these reworks his 1958 play The Brass Butterfly. His later novels include Darkness Visible ( 1979 ), which is about a terrorist group, a paedophile teacher, and a mysterious angel - like figure who survives a fire in the Blitz, The Paper Men ( 1984 ) which is about the conflict between a writer and his biographer, and a sea trilogy To the Ends of the Earth, which includes the Rites of Passage ( 1980 ), Close Quarters ( 1987 ), and Fire Down Below ( 1989 ), the first book of which ( originally intended as a stand - alone novel ) won the Booker Prize. List of works Poetry Poems ( 1934 ) Drama The Brass Butterfly ( 1958 ) Novels Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) The Inheritors ( 1955 ) Pincher Martin ( 1956 ) Free Fall ( 1959 ) The Spire ( 1964 ) The Pyramid ( 1967 ) The Scorpion God ( 1971 ) Darkness Visible ( 1979 ) The Paper Men ( 1984 ) To the Ends of the Earth ( trilogy ) Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) Close Quarters ( 1987 ) Fire Down Below ( 1989 ) The Double Tongue ( posthumous publication 1995 ) Non-fiction The Hot Gates ( 1965 ) A Moving Target ( 1982 ) An Egyptian Journal ( 1985 ) Unpublished works Seahorse was written in 1948. It is a biographical account of sailing on the south coast of England whilst in training for D - Day. Circle Under the Sea is an adventure novel about a writer who sails to discover archaeological treasures off the coast of the Scilly Isles. Short Measure is a novel set in a British boarding school. Audiobooks 2005 : Lord of the Flies ( read by the author ), Listening Library, ISBN 978 - 0307281708 References ^ Jump up to : William Golding : Awards. William Golding.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2012 ^ Jump up to : Bruce Lambert ( 20 June 1993 ). `` William Golding Is Dead at 81 ; The Author of ' Lord of the Flies ' ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 6 September 2007. Jump up ^ The 50 greatest British writers since 1945. The Times ( 5 January 2008 ). Retrieved on 1 February 2010. Jump up ^ `` General Logon Page ''. Ic.galegroup.com. Retrieved 31 January 2013. ^ Jump up to : Kevin McCarron, ' Golding, Sir William Gerald ( 1911 -- 1993 ) ', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004 ; online edn, May 2006 accessed 13 November 2007 Jump up ^ Carey, Childhood. Jump up ^ ( Which should not be confused with Marlborough College, the nearby `` public '' boarding school ). Jump up ^ Raychel Haugrud Reiff, William Golding : Lord of the Flies, Marshall Cavendish, 2009 Jump up ^ Carey, The House. Jump up ^ Carey, pp. 41, 49 Jump up ^ Harold Bloom ( 2008 ). William Golding 's Lord of the Flies ; Bloom 's modern critical interpretations. Infobase Publishing. pp. 161 -- 165. ISBN 0 - 7910 - 9826 - 5. Jump up ^ Raychel Haugrud Reiff, William Golding : Lord of the Flies, page 58 ( Marshall Cavendish, 2010 ). ISBN 978 - 0 - 7614 - 4276 - 9 Jump up ^ Mortimer, John ( 1986 ). Character Parts. London : Penguin. ISBN 0 - 14 - 008959 - 4. Jump up ^ Golding, William ( 1996 ). The Double Tongue. London : Faber. ISBN 978 - 0 - 571 - 17803 - 2. Jump up ^ James Lovelock, ' What is Gaia ? ', accessed 16 May 2013 Jump up ^ `` No. 51558 ''. The London Gazette. 13 December 1988. p. 13986. Jump up ^ F. Regard ( ed. ), Fingering Netsukes : Selected Papers from the First International William Golding Conference, Saint - Etienne, PUSE, 1995. Jump up ^ `` Man as an Island ''. The New York Times. Jump up ^ The Double Tongue 1996 Faber reprint ISBN 978 - 0 - 571 - 17720 - 2 Jump up ^ Carey, p. 130 Jump up ^ Carey, p. 137 Jump up ^ Carey, p. 142 Sources Carey, John ( 2009 ). William Golding : The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies. New York : Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978 - 1 - 4391 - 8732 - 6. Further reading L.L. Dickson, The Modern Allegories of William Golding ( University of South Florida Press, 1990 ). ISBN 0 - 8130 - 0971 - 5. R.A. Gekoski and P.A. Grogan, William Golding : A Bibliography, London, André Deutsch, 1994. ISBN 978 - 0 - 233 - 98611 - 1. `` Boys Armed with Sticks : William Golding 's Lord of the Flies ''. Chapter in B. Schoene - Harwood. Writing Men. Edinburgh University Press, 2000. Ladenthin, Volker : Golding, Herr der Fliegen ; Verne, 2 Jahre Ferien ; Schlüter, Level 4 - Stadt der Kinder. In : engagement ( 1998 ) H. 4 S. 271 - 274. 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Question: when did golding write lord of the flies
Answer: 1953