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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.
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 nature of humanity and went on to inspire Lord of the Flies. [5] Lord of the Flies was rejected by many publishers before being accepted by Faber & Faber. An initial rejection labelled ...
Golding wrote a first draft of the novella from which the collection takes its name in 1964, under the title "To Keep Now Still", but he was unhappy with how it came out and abandoned it until early 1969 when he rediscovered it and mentioned it to his editor, Charles Monteith at Faber & Faber, with the suggestion that it could be published together with "Envoy Extraordinary".
The Inheritors is a work of prehistoric fiction [1] and the second novel by the British author William Golding, best known for his first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954). It concerns the extinction of one of the last remaining tribes of Neanderthals at the hands of the more sophisticated Homo sapiens.
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, Scotland) Joan Grant (1907–1989 ...
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 ...
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...
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 ...