About the author



About the author

William Gerald Golding, born in Cornwall, September 19, 1911 [died 1993], is a prominent English novelist, an essayist and poet, and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for literature. Golding's often allegorical fiction makes broad use of allusions to classical literature, mythology, and Christian symbolism. Although no distinct thread unites his novels and his technique varies, Golding deals principally with evil and emerges with what has been characterized as a kind of dark optimism.

Golding studied English literature and philosophy at Oxford, and served in the Royal Navy during World War II. The war, as a physical result, changed Golding's view of life significantly. Golding couldn't believe in man's innocence any longer. He found that even the children are not innocent. No one is innocent until society and his way of life make him pretend that he's innocent. But sometimes, when a man is facing a difficult situation (e.g., the need to survive) then he will probably show his other nature, the dark and guilty nature.

Golding was a schoolmaster and lecturer. In addition to his novels, he has published a play, The Brass Butterfly (1958); a book of verse, Poems (1934); and the essay collections The Hot Gates (1965) and A Moving Target (1982).



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