William Golding

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 in the Royal Navy. Afterwards he returned to being a schoolmaster in Salisbury.Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was an immediate success, and was followed by a series of remarkable novels, includingThe Inheritors,Pincher Martin...