William Golding: Lord of the Flies by Raychel Haugrud Reiff (Writers and Their Works)
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Overview: Introduces the life and writings of authors whose works forever changed the time period in which they lived, and whose writing continues to be a dynamic part of the literary landscape.
WILLIAM GERALD GOLDING was born in Cornwall, England, in 1911. Fun-loving and mischievous, young Billy was a brilliant boy who read novels and taught himself to read Egyptian hieroglyphics before he started elementary school. When he was college age, Golding followed his parents’ wishes and entered Oxford University to study the natural sciences with the aim of becoming a scientist; but, after two years, he switched to English literature, the subject he loved. World War II broke out several years later and Golding, now a teacher, joined the Royal British Navy. His war experience profoundly influenced his view of humankind, which he saw as inherently evil with great potential to do terrible deeds. When the war ended, Golding returned to teaching, a job he loathed. Two days before his forty-third birthday in 1954, his life changed forever when Lord of the Flies was published. College students loved the novel, and Golding soon had a cult following. After the book’s enthusiastic reception, Golding published several other novels, a collection of essays, and short stories, but none attained the popularity of his first work. Because of the income from book sales, Golding was able to quit his teaching job in 1962 and become a full-time writer. In spite of his success, Golding was unhappy and depressed for about twenty years, from 1958 to 1979,
during which time he suffered writer’s block. However, in 1979 when he was fifty-eight years old, Golding revived his career, once again producing a number of novels and books of essays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983, ten years before he died. Today, Lord of the Flies remains a popular novel, not only because of its exciting plot but also because of its intellectual and philosophical insights into the nature of human beings.
Genre: Biography
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