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William Golding

Sir William Gerald Golding (1911–1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet best known for his debut novel *Lord of the Flies* (1954), which explores the dark side of human nature through boys stranded on an island.[1][2] After serving in the Royal Navy during World War II, he returned to teaching before achieving success with his writing, winning the Booker Prize in 1980 for *Rites of Passage* and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.[1][4] He published over a dozen novels and was knighted in 1988.[1][5]

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