William Gerald Golding

Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel Lord of the Flies, he won a Nobel Prize in Literature and was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth.

Golding was knighted in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

List of works:

Poetry:

Poems (1934)

Drama:

The Brass Butterfly (1958)

Novels:

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)
The Paper Men (1984)
To the Ends of the Earth (trilogy)
- Rites of Passage (1980)
- Close Quarters (1987)
- Fire Down Below (1989)
The Double Tongue (posthumous publication 1995)

Non-fiction:

The Hot Gates (1965)
A Moving Target (1982)
An Egyptian Journal (1985)

Unpublished works:

Seahorse was written in 1948. It is a biographical account of sailing on the south coast of England whilst in training for D-Day.
Circle Under the Sea is an adventure novel about a writer who sails to discover archaeological treasures off the coast of the Scilly Isles.
Short Measure is a novel set in a British boarding school.