Lord of the Flies (Broché)

Biographie de William Golding

William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall, England, in 1911 and educated at Oxford University. His first book, Poems, was published in 1935. Following a stint in the Royal Navy and other diversions during and after World War II, Golding wrote Lord of the Flies (1954) while teaching school. This was the first of many novels including The Inheritors (1955), Pincher Martin (1956), and Free Fall (1959) and a play, The Brass Butte (1958), which led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.
He died in June 1993 and is buried in Holy Trinity churchyard, England. Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879, attended Tonbridge School as a day boy, and went on to King's College, Cambridge, in 1897. With King's he had a lifelong connection and was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 1946. He wrote six novels, four of which appeared before World War I : Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), and Howards End (1910).
An interval of fourteen years elapsed before he published A Passage to India (1924). It won both the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Maurice was finished in 1914 but not published until 1971, after Forster's death. Forster also published two volumes of short stories ; two collections of essays ; Aspects of the Novel, a critical work ; The Hill of Devi, a fascinating record of two visits Forster made to the Indian state of Dewas Senior ; two biographies ; two books about Alexandria (where he worked for the Red Cross during World War I) ; and, with Eric Crozier, the libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd.
He died in June 1970.