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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.
Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding's first novel. Golding got the idea for the plot from The Coral Island, a children's adventure novel with a focus on Christianity and the supposed civilising influence of British colonialism. Golding thought that the book was unrealistic, and asked his wife if it would be a good idea if he "wrote ...
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 ...
Prince William is a royal — but he’s also just a dad trying to get his kids to share what they did at school on any given day.. The Prince of Wales, 42, visited Liverpool on Jan. 23 and spoke ...
A kindergarten student and his mother were struck and killed by a school bus on Thursday while walking to school in suburban New York, authorities said. The crash happened just after 8:30 a.m. in ...
Another one! Henry Golding and his wife, Liv Lo, have welcomed their second child. “The journey of childbirth is full of its ups and downs, but glorious none the other. This is our birth story ...
William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He first came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist before turning to screenwriting. He first came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist before turning to screenwriting.
TODAY kids' names: Take a closer look at the names of the TODAY co-hosts' children, ... Clara means "bright" or "clear" and has become a modern favorite among parents. Clara's twin brother, Uche ...