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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Emily Davison, William Golding, Harold James Ruthven Murray, Susan Sutherland Isaacs, Jo Riley, William Wales, Christopher Strachey, Murder of Philip Lawrence, Charlotte Wilson, Leah Manning, Walter Fraser Oakeshott, Sam Aiston, Gerald Howat, Helen Rollason, Dikran Tahta, Adrian Adlam, Harry Ree, Julian Hails, George Andre Robertson, Ronald Welch, Tim Thorogood, Dolly Walker-Wraight, Geoffrey Rees, John Nettleship, Stuart Townend, William Langford, Mike Storey, Patricia Collarbone, Barnaby Lenon, John Kempe, Sophie Bryant, Mary Macdonald, Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke, Muriel Nichol, Gerald Bernbaum, Anthea Millett, David Jewell, Lilian Barker, Kathleen Griffin, Mary Marsh, Jocelyn Barrow, Robert James, Frederick Bancroft, Helen Metcalf, Dorothy Rees, David Squibb, Joan Harbison, Mary Barbara Bailey, James McEvoy, Michael Hoban, George Anderson, Ruth Robins, Tamsyn Imison, John Keate, Peter Smith, Mark Grundy, Pamela Coward, Diane Redmond, John D. Mackay, John Herbert Babington, Edmund Tucker, School Teachers Opposed to Performance Pay, Tom Jenkins. Excerpt: Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 - 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945." William Golding was born in his grandmother's house, 47 Mountwise, Newquay, Cornwall and he spent many childhood holidays there. He grew up at his family home in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where his father (Alec Golding) was a science master at Marlborough Grammar School (1905 to retirement). Alec Golding was a socialist...
