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Son of Alec Golding, a science master at Marlborough Grammar School (1905 to retirement), and Mildred, née Curnoe, [4] William Golding was born at his maternal grandmother's house, 47 Mount Wise, Newquay, [5] Cornwall. [6]
Arthur Golden (born 1956, US) Julia Golding (born 1969, England) William Golding (1911–1993, England) Jason Goodwin (born 1964, England) Noah Gordon (1926–2021, US) Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984, England) Iris Gower (1935–2010, Wales) C. L. Grace (born 1946, England) Posie Graeme-Evans (born 1952, Australia) James Grant (1822–1887 ...
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 ...
Julia Golding (born 1969, England, f), pseudonyms Joss Stirling and Eve Edwards William Golding (1911–1993, England, f/d/p) John M. Goldman (1938–2013, England, nf)
William Golding (1911–1993), novelist [45] Julia Goldsworthy (born 1978), former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne; Gorlois, mythical Duke of Cornwall; Pete Goss (born 1961), sailor now living in Torpoint; Andrew Graham (born 1942), Master of Balliol College, Oxford, 2001-2011
William Godwin (1803–1832) Julia Golding (born 1969), The Diamond of Drury Lane; William Golding (1911–1993), Lord of the Flies; Martin J. Goodman (born 1956) Jason Goodwin (born 1964), The Janissary Tree; John Gordon (1925–2017) supernatural fiction; Catherine Gore (1798–1861) Gwen Grant (born 1940) children's fiction; Joan Grant (1907 ...
Golding, who was a philosophy teacher before becoming a Royal Navy lieutenant, experienced war firsthand, and commanded a landing craft in the Normandy landings during D-Day in 1944. After the war ended and Golding returned to England, the world was dominated by Cold War and the threat of nuclear annihilation , which led Golding to examine the ...
Golding knew there was debate about whether that pharaoh, Menes, was the same person as Narmer (whose name may mean "stinging") and about whether Narmer was the same person as King Scorpion. For the purposes of the story, they are one and the same, and the dying priest saying "he stings like a scorpion" is intended to reference this.