Sir William Gerald Golding, CBE FRSL was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies, he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime.

When was Golding born and when did he die?

William Golding, in full Sir William Gerald Golding, (born September 19, 1911, St. Columb Minor, near Newquay, Cornwall, England—died June 19, 1993, Perranarworthal, near Falmouth, Cornwall), English novelist who in 1983 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his parables of the human condition.

What was Golding's illness?

When William Golding died suddenly of a heart attack, after an evening's heavy drinking nearly 19 years ago, he left behind a treasure trove of unfinished novels and an intimate personal journal.