William Golding - Wikipedia William Golding From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search British novelist, poet, and playwright 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 CBE, FRSL Golding in 1983 Born William Gerald Golding (1911-09-19)19 September 1911 Newquay, Cornwall, England Died 19 June 1993(1993-06-19) (aged 81) Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England Occupation Schoolteacher • Novelist • Playwright • Poet 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 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 would go on to publish another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988.[1][2] He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[1] In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[3] 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1.4 Death 2 Career 2.1 Writing success 2.2 Fiction 3 List of works 3.1 Poetry 3.2 Drama 3.3 Novels 3.4 Non-fiction 3.5 Unpublished works 4 Audiobooks 5 References 6 Sources 7 Further reading 8 External links Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Plaque at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury. William Golding was born in his maternal grandmother's house, 47 Mount Wise, Newquay,[4] Cornwall.[5] The house was known as Karenza, the Cornish language word for love, and he spent many childhood holidays there.[6] 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.[7] His mother, Mildred (Curnoe),[8] 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 ghost stories from her own childhood.[9] In 1930 Golding went to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he read Natural Sciences for two years before transferring to English for his final two years.[10] His original tutor was the chemist Thomas Taylor.[11] In a private journal and in a memoir for his wife, Golding said he tried to rape a 15-year-old girl when he was 18 and on his first holiday from Oxford.[12] 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 and music at Maidstone Grammar School 1938 - 1940, before moving to Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, in April 1940. There he taught English, Philosophy, Greek, and drama there until joining the navy on the 18th December 1940, reporting for duty at HMS Raleigh. He returned in 1945 and taught the same subjects until 1961. [13] Golding kept a personal journal for over 22 years [14] from 1971 until the night before his death, and which contained approximately 2.4 million words in total. The journal was initially used by Golding in order to record his dreams, but over time it gradually began to function as a record of his life. As one might expect, the journals contain insights including retrospective thoughts about his novels and memories from his past. At one point Golding describes setting his students up into two groups to fight each other - an experience he drew on when writing Lord of the Flies.[15] John Carey, the emeritus professor of English literature at Oxford university, was eventually given 'unprecedented access to Golding’s unpublished papers and journals by the Golding estate'. [16] Though Golding had not written the journals specifically so that a biography could be written about him, Carey published William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies in 2009. [17] Marriage and family[edit] Golding was engaged to Molly Evans, a woman from Marlborough, who was well liked by both of his parents. [18] However, he broke off the engagement and married Ann Brookfield, an analytical chemist,[19] on 30 September 1939. They had two children, David (born September, 1940) and Judith (born July, 1945).[5] War service[edit] During World War II, Golding joined the Royal Navy in 1940.[20] He served in a destroyer which was briefly involved in the pursuit and sinking of the German battleship Bismarck. Golding participated in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, commanding a landing craft that fired salvoes of rockets onto the beaches. He was also in action at Walcheren in October and November of 1944, during which time 20 out of 27 assault craft that went into the attack were sunk.[21] [22] Death[edit] In 1985, Golding and his wife moved to a house called Tullimaar in 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 near his former home and the Wiltshire county border with Hampshire and Dorset. On his death he left the draft of a novel, The Double Tongue, set in ancient Delphi, which was published posthumously in 1995.[2][23] Career[edit] Writing success[edit] Golding, Artur Lundkvist and Jean-Paul Sartre at a writers' congress in Leningrad, USSR, 1963. Whilst still a teacher at Bishop Wordsworth's School, in 1951 Golding began writing a manuscript of the novel initially titled Strangers from Within.[24] In September 1953, after rejections from seven other publishers, Golding sent a manuscript to Faber and Faber and was initially rejected by their reader, Jan Perkins, who labelled it as "Rubbish & dull. Pointless".[25] 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 personification of the Earth in Greek mythology, and mother of the Titans.[26] 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 (now Hollins University), near Roanoke, Virginia. Golding won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Darkness Visible in 1979, and the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage 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".[5] In 1988 Golding was appointed a Knight Bachelor.[27] In September 1993, only a few months after his unexpected death, the First International William Golding Conference was held in France, where Golding's presence had been promised and was eagerly expected.[28] Fiction[edit] 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 descending into a lawless and increasingly wild existence before being rescued. 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 freedom of choice. The novel's narrator, a World War Two soldier in a German POW Camp, endures interrogation and solitary confinement. After these events and while recollecting the experiences, he looks back over the choices he has made, trying to trace precisely where he lost the freedom to make his own decisions. The Spire (1964) follows the construction (and near collapse) of an impossibly large spire on the top of a medieval cathedral (generally assumed to be Salisbury Cathedral). The novel explores ideas of sexual lust, religious fervour and delusion, and the power of the Church in Medieval England, with the titular spire symbolizing both spiritual aspiration and worldly vanity. Golding's 1967 novel The Pyramid consists of three linked stories with a shared setting in a small English town based partly on Marlborough where Golding grew up. The Scorpion God (1971) contains three novellas, the first set in an ancient Egyptian court ('The Scorpion God'); the second describing a prehistoric African hunter-gatherer group ('Clonk, Clonk'); and the third in the court of a Roman emperor ('Envoy Extraordinary'). The last of these, originally published in 1956, was reworked by Golding into a play, The Brass Butterfly, in 1958. From 1971 to 1979 Golding published no novels. After this period he published Darkness Visible (1979): a story involving terrorism, paedophilia, and a mysterious figure who survives a fire in the Blitz, and appears to have supernatural powers. In 1980, Golding published Rites of Passage, the first of his novels about a voyage to Australia in the early nineteenth century. The novel won the Booker Prize in 1980 and Golding followed this success with Close Quarters (1987) and Fire Down Below (1989) to complete his 'sea trilogy', later published as one volume entitled To the Ends of the Earth. The three stories were later adapted into a mini-series for the BBC, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. In 1984 he published The Paper Men: an account of the struggles between a novelist and his would-be biographer. The novel Lord of the Flies is arguably Golding's most famous book. Considered a modern classic, the book is read in schools around the world today.[29] List of works[edit] Poetry[edit] Poems (1934) Drama[edit] The Brass Butterfly (1958) Novels[edit] 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) Rites of Passage (1980) The Paper Men (1984) To the Ends of the Earth (trilogy) Close Quarters (1987) Fire Down Below (1989) The Double Tongue (posthumous publication 1995)[30] Non-fiction[edit] The Hot Gates (1965) A Moving Target (1982) An Egyptian Journal (1985) Unpublished works[edit] Seahorse was written in 1948. It is a biographical account of sailing on the south coast of England in the summer of 1947 and contains a short passage about being in training for D-Day.[31] Circle Under the Sea is an adventure novel about a writer who sails to discover archaeological treasures off the coast of the Scilly Isles.[32] Short Measure is a novel set in a British school akin to Bishop Wordsworth's.[33] Audiobooks[edit] 2005: Lord of the Flies (read by the author), Listening Library, ISBN 978-0-307-28170-8 References[edit] ^ a b William Golding: Awards. William Golding.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2012 ^ a b 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. ^ The 50 greatest British writers since 1945. The Times (5 January 2008). Retrieved on 1 February 2010. ^ Carey, Chap. 5 ('Childhood'), pg. 18. ^ a b c Kevin McCarron, ‘Golding, Sir William Gerald (1911–1993)’, accessed 13 November 2007 ^ Carey, Chap 5 ('Childhood'), pg. 18. ^ (Which should not be confused with Marlborough College, the nearby "public" boarding school). ^ Raychel Haugrud Reiff, William Golding: Lord of the Flies, Marshall Cavendish, 2009 ^ Carey, Chap. 4 ('The House'), pg. 15. ^ Carey, pp. 41, 49 ^ Carey, p. 15 ^ Wainwright, Martin (16 August 2009). "Author William Golding tried to rape teenager, private papers show". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 20 December 2019. ^ Carey, pp. 82, 111 ^ William Golding Website, https://william-golding.co.uk/timeline, Accessed 28th Nov 2020. ^ Carey, Chap 10 ('Teaching'), pgs. 125-6. ^ William Golding Website, https://william-golding.co.uk/timeline, Accessed 28th Nov 2020. ^ Carey, John. The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies. Faber, 2009. ^ Presley, Nicola. 'William Golding's Early Life.'William Golding Officical Website, Published 19th Sept. 2018, https://william-golding.co.uk/william-goldings-early-life. Accessed 29th Nov. 2020. ^ Harold Bloom (2008). William Golding's Lord of the Flies; Bloom's modern critical interpretations. Infobase Publishing. pp. 161–165. ISBN 978-0-7910-9826-4. ^ Raychel Haugrud Reiff, William Golding: Lord of the Flies, page 58 (Marshall Cavendish, 2010). ISBN 978-0-7614-4276-9 ^ Mortimer, John (1986). Character Parts. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-008959-2. ^ Carey, p. 94 ^ Golding, William (1996). The Double Tongue. London: Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-17803-2. ^ Williams, Phoebe. “New BBC programme sheds light on the story behind the publication of Lord of the Flies.” Faber & Faber, 6/6/19, https://www.faber.co.uk/blog/new-bbc-programme-sheds-light-on-the-story-behind-the-publication-of-lord-of-the-flies/. Accessed 16/4/20. ^ Sunday Feature, 18:45 02/06/2019, BBC Radio 3, 45 mins. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/13750939?bcast=129246943 (Accessed 16 Apr 2020) ^ James Lovelock, ‘What is Gaia?’, accessed 16 May 2013 ^ "No. 51558". The London Gazette. 13 December 1988. p. 13986. ^ F. Regard (ed.), Fingering Netsukes: Selected Papers from the First International William Golding Conference, Saint-Etienne, PUSE, 1995. ^ "William Golding Flies classic holds true 60 years on". BBC News. 16 September 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2020. ^ The Double Tongue 1996 Faber reprint ISBN 978-0-571-17720-2 ^ Carey, p. 130 ^ Carey, p. 137 ^ Carey, p. 142 Sources[edit] Carey, Professor John (2009). William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-8732-6. Carey, Professor John (2009). William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies. London: Faber and Faber Limited. ISBN 978-0-571-23163-8. Further reading[edit] Cornwall portal Crompton, Donald. A View from the Spire: William Golding's Later Novels. Basil Blackwell Publisher Ltd, Oxford, 1985. https://archive.org/details/viewfromspirew00crom/page/n5/mode/2up. ISBN 978-0-631-14911-8. L. L. Dickson. The Modern Allegories of William Golding (University of South Florida Press, 1990). ISBN 978-0-8130-0971-1. R. A. Gekoski and P. A. Grogan, William Golding: A Bibliography, London, André Deutsch, 1994. ISBN 978-0-233-98611-1. Golding, Judy. The Children of Lovers. Faber & Faber, 2012. ISBN 978-0-571-27342-3. Gregor, Ian and Kinkead-Weekes, Mark. William Golding: A critical Study. 2nd Revised Edition, Faber & Faber, 1984. ISBN 978-0-571-13259-1 McCarron, Kevin. (2007) 'From Psychology to Ontology: William Golding’s Later Fiction.' In: MacKay M., Stonebridge L. (eds) British Fiction After Modernism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230801394_15. McCarron, Kevin. William Golding (Writers and Their Work). 2nd Edition, Northcote House Publishers Ltd, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7463-1143-1. "Boys Armed with Sticks: William Golding's Lord of the Flies". Chapter in B. Schoene-Harwood. Writing Men. Edinburgh University Press, 2000. Tiger, Virginia. William Golding: The Dark Fields of Discovery. Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1974. ISBN 978-0-7145-1012-5. Tiger, Virginia. William Golding: The Unmoved Target. Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7145-3082-6 Ladenthin, Volker: Golding, Herr der Fliegen; Verne, 2 Jahre Ferien; Schlüter, Level 4 - Stadt der Kinder. In: engagement (1998) H. 4 S. 271-274. External links[edit] Wikiquote has quotations related to: William Golding BBC television interview from 1959 William Golding on Nobelprize.org Interview by Mary Lynn Scott – Universal Pessimist, Cosmic Optimist William Golding Ltd Official Website. Last Words An account of Golding's last evening by D. M. Thomas – Guardian – Saturday 10 June 2006 (Review Section) Official Facebook page Nobel Prize Lecture "William Golding's crisis" William Golding on IMDb William Golding at University of Exeter Special Collections v t e Works by William Golding Poems (1934) Lord of the Flies (1954) The Inheritors (1955) Pincher Martin (1956) The Brass Butterfly : a Play in Three Acts (1958) Free Fall (1959) The Spire (1964) The Hot Gates, and Other Occasional Pieces (1965) The Pyramid (1967) The Scorpion God : Three Short Novels (1971) Darkness Visible (1979) Rites of Passage (1980) A Moving Target (1982) Nobel Lecture, 7 December 1983 (1984) The Paper Men (1984) An Egyptian Journal (1985) Close Quarters (1987) Fire Down Below (1989) The Double Tongue (1995) v t e Recipients of the Booker Prize List of winners and shortlisted authors The Best of the Booker The Golden Man Booker International Booker Prize 1969– 1979 1969: P. H. Newby (Something to Answer For) 1970: Bernice Rubens (The Elected Member) 1970 Lost Prize: J. G. Farrell (Troubles) 1971: V. S. Naipaul (In a Free State) 1972: John Berger (G.) 1973: J. G. Farrell (The Siege of Krishnapur) 1974: Nadine Gordimer (The Conservationist) and Stanley Middleton (Holiday) 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Heat and Dust) 1976: David Storey (Saville) 1977: Paul Scott (Staying On) 1978: Iris Murdoch (The Sea, the Sea) 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald (Offshore) 1980s 1980: William Golding (Rites of Passage) 1981: Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children) 1982: Thomas Keneally (Schindler's Ark) 1983: J. M. Coetzee (Life & Times of Michael K) 1984: Anita Brookner (Hotel du Lac) 1985: Keri Hulme (The Bone People) 1986: Kingsley Amis (The Old Devils) 1987: Penelope Lively (Moon Tiger) 1988: Peter Carey (Oscar and Lucinda) 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day) 1990s 1990: A. S. Byatt (Possession) 1991: Ben Okri (The Famished Road) 1992: Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) and Barry Unsworth (Sacred Hunger) 1993: Roddy Doyle (Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha) 1994: James Kelman (How Late It Was, How Late) 1995: Pat Barker (The Ghost Road) 1996: Graham Swift (Last Orders) 1997: Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things) 1998: Ian McEwan (Amsterdam) 1999: J. M. Coetzee (Disgrace) 2000s 2000: Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin) 2001: Peter Carey (True History of the Kelly Gang) 2002: Yann Martel (Life of Pi) 2003: DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little) 2004: Alan Hollinghurst (The Line of Beauty) 2005: John Banville (The Sea) 2006: Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss) 2007: Anne Enright (The Gathering) 2008: Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger) 2009: Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall) 2010s 2010: Howard Jacobson (The Finkler Question) 2011: Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending) 2012: Hilary Mantel (Bring Up the Bodies) 2013: Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries) 2014: Richard Flanagan (The Narrow Road to the Deep North) 2015: Marlon James (A Brief History of Seven Killings) 2016: Paul Beatty (The Sellout) 2017: George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo) 2018: Anna Burns (Milkman) 2019: Margaret Atwood (The Testaments) and Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other) 2020s 2020: Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain) v t e Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1901–1925 1901: Sully Prudhomme 1902: Theodor Mommsen 1903: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1904: Frédéric Mistral / José Echegaray 1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz 1906: Giosuè Carducci 1907: Rudyard Kipling 1908: Rudolf Eucken 1909: Selma Lagerlöf 1910: Paul Heyse 1911: Maurice Maeterlinck 1912: Gerhart Hauptmann 1913: Rabindranath Tagore 1914 1915: Romain Rolland 1916: Verner von Heidenstam 1917: Karl Gjellerup / Henrik Pontoppidan 1918 1919: Carl Spitteler 1920: Knut Hamsun 1921: Anatole France 1922: Jacinto Benavente 1923: W. B. Yeats 1924: Władysław Reymont 1925: George Bernard Shaw 1926–1950 1926: Grazia Deledda 1927: Henri Bergson 1928: Sigrid Undset 1929: Thomas Mann 1930: Sinclair Lewis 1931: Erik Axel Karlfeldt 1932: John Galsworthy 1933: Ivan Bunin 1934: Luigi Pirandello 1935 1936: Eugene O'Neill 1937: Roger Martin du Gard 1938: Pearl S. Buck 1939: Frans Eemil Sillanpää 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944: Johannes V. Jensen 1945: Gabriela Mistral 1946: Hermann Hesse 1947: André Gide 1948: T. S. 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S. Naipaul 2002: Imre Kertész 2003: J. M. Coetzee 2004: Elfriede Jelinek 2005: Harold Pinter 2006: Orhan Pamuk 2007: Doris Lessing 2008: J. M. G. Le Clézio 2009: Herta Müller 2010: Mario Vargas Llosa 2011: Tomas Tranströmer 2012: Mo Yan 2013: Alice Munro 2014: Patrick Modiano 2015: Svetlana Alexievich 2016: Bob Dylan 2017: Kazuo Ishiguro 2018: Olga Tokarczuk 2019: Peter Handke 2020: Louise Glück v t e 1983 Nobel Prize laureates Chemistry Henry Taube (United States) Literature William Golding (Great Britain) Peace Lech Wałęsa (Poland) Physics Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (India) William Alfred Fowler (United States) Physiology or Medicine Barbara McClintock (United States) Economic Sciences Gérard Debreu (United States) Nobel Prize recipients 1990 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 2000 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 v t e Culture of Cornwall Cornish: Gonisogeth Kernow Symbols Celtic cross Cornish chough Cornish heath Cornish kilts and tartans Jonathan Trelawny Michael An Gof Saint Piran Saint Piran's Flag Scillonian Cross Festivals AberFest Allantide Chewidden Thursday Furry Dance Golowan Guldize Kernewek Lowender Montol Festival Mummer's Day Nickanan Night Nos Lowen Noze looan 'Obby 'Oss Picrous Day St Piran's Day Tom Bawcock's Eve Sports Cornish hurling Cornish pilot-gig racing Cornish wrestling Rugby union in Cornwall Cuisine Cloam oven Clotted cream Cornish cheeses Cornish cream tea Cornish fairings Cornish Gilliflower Hevva cake Hog's pudding Pasty Saffron bun Stargazy pie Cornish Yarg Arts List of Cornish writers Tristan and Iseult Cornwall Film Festival Tate St Ives St Ives School W. 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