1911 - 1993
Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Golding has received more than 2,417,996 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia. William Golding is the 266th most popular writer (down from 238th in 2019), the 210th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 177th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Writer.
In 1954, William Golding published his debut novel, Lord of the Flies. The novel tells the story of a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and try to govern themselves, with disastrous results.
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Among writers, William Golding ranks 266 out of 5,755. Before him are Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Jaroslav Hašek, Alfonso X of Castile, Henry Miller, and Carlo Goldoni. After him are Jordanes, Chrétien de Troyes, Valmiki, Shams Tabrizi, Françoise Sagan, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
1729 - 1781
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 260
620 BC - 560 BC
HPI: 70.71
Rank: 261
1883 - 1923
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 262
1221 - 1284
HPI: 70.64
Rank: 263
1891 - 1980
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 264
1707 - 1793
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 265
1911 - 1993
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 266
600 - 600
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 267
1135 - 1185
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 268
80 BC - 2 BC
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 269
1185 - 1248
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 270
1935 - 2004
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 271
1792 - 1822
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 272
Among people born in 1911, William Golding ranks 11. Before him are Georges Pompidou, Naguib Mahfouz, Juan Manuel Fangio, Emil Cioran, Władysław Szpilman, and Nino Rota. After him are Todor Zhivkov, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Marshall McLuhan, Czesław Miłosz, Jack Ruby, and Robert Johnson. Among people deceased in 1993, William Golding ranks 9. Before him are Federico Fellini, Rudolf Nureyev, Erich Hartmann, Frank Zappa, James Hunt, and Baudouin of Belgium. After him are Ferruccio Lamborghini, Turgut Özal, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Anthony Burgess, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, and André the Giant.
1911 - 1974
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 5
1911 - 2006
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 6
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 7
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 8
1911 - 2000
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 9
1911 - 1979
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 10
1911 - 1993
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 11
1911 - 1998
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 12
1911 - 2013
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 13
1911 - 1980
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 14
1911 - 2004
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 15
1911 - 1967
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 16
1911 - 1938
HPI: 68.45
Rank: 17
1920 - 1993
HPI: 79.23
Rank: 3
1938 - 1993
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 4
1922 - 1993
HPI: 71.92
Rank: 5
1940 - 1993
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 6
1947 - 1993
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 7
1930 - 1993
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 8
1911 - 1993
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 9
1916 - 1993
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 10
1927 - 1993
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 11
1939 - 1993
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 12
1917 - 1993
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 13
1913 - 1993
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 14
1946 - 1993
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 15
Among people born in United Kingdom, William Golding ranks 210 out of 7,765. Before him are Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846), Charles II of England (1630), Ecgberht, King of Wessex (800), Arthur Henderson (1863), Robert Brown (1773), and Henrietta of England (1644). After him are Ken Miles (1918), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), Brian Jones (1942), C. S. Lewis (1898), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), and John Wycliffe (1324).
1846 - 1923
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 204
1630 - 1685
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 205
800 - 839
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 206
1863 - 1935
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 207
1773 - 1858
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 208
1644 - 1670
HPI: 70.58
Rank: 209
1911 - 1993
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 210
1918 - 1966
HPI: 70.43
Rank: 211
1792 - 1822
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 212
1942 - 1969
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 213
1898 - 1963
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 214
1869 - 1959
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 215
1324 - 1384
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 216
Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Golding ranks 27. Before him are Terry Pratchett (1948), John Milton (1608), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), Anna Wintour (1949), J. K. Rowling (1965), and Roald Dahl (1916). After him are Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), C. S. Lewis (1898), Graham Greene (1904), John Keats (1795), Anne Brontë (1820), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1619).
1948 - 2015
HPI: 71.93
Rank: 21
1608 - 1674
HPI: 71.77
Rank: 22
1759 - 1797
HPI: 71.49
Rank: 23
1949 - Present
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 24
1965 - Present
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 25
1916 - 1990
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 26
1911 - 1993
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 27
1792 - 1822
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 28
1898 - 1963
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 29
1904 - 1991
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 30
1795 - 1821
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 31
1820 - 1849
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 32
1619 - 1655
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 33