William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies
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Publishing Details
William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies
By (Author) Professor John Carey
By (author) Professor John Carey
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
27th August 2009
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
823.914
Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize: Biography 2009
Physical Properties
592
Width 160mm, Height 243mm, Spine 45mm
895g
Description
William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served int he Royal Navy. Afterwards he returned to being a school master in Salisbury. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was an immediate success, and was followed by a series of remarkable novels, including The Inheritors, Pincher Martin and The Spire. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980, and was awared the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, and knighted in 1988. He died in 1993.
Author Bio
John Carey is Emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, a distinguished critic, reviewer and broadcaster, and the author of several books, including studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, as well as The Intellectuals and the Masses. He is the editor of Faber anthologies of Reportage, Utopias and Science. His most recent book, What Good are the Arts was praised by Blake Morrison as 'incisive and inspirational.'
