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 2,077,499 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 90 in 2019). William Golding is the 238th most popular writer (down from 203rd in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 142nd in 2019) and the 24th 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 238 out of 5,794. Before him are W. Somerset Maugham, Wisława Szymborska, Anacreon, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Guillaume de Machaut. After him are Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Christine de Pizan, Prosper Mérimée, Philip K. Dick, Alphonse Daudet, and Sallust.
1874 - 1965
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 232
1923 - 2012
HPI: 78.20
Rank: 233
570 BC - 485 BC
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 234
1201 - 1274
HPI: 78.14
Rank: 235
1484 - 1566
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 236
1300 - 1377
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 237
1911 - 1993
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 238
1857 - 1919
HPI: 78.09
Rank: 239
1365 - 1430
HPI: 78.09
Rank: 240
1803 - 1870
HPI: 78.08
Rank: 241
1928 - 1982
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 242
1840 - 1897
HPI: 77.98
Rank: 243
86 BC - 34 BC
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 244
Among people born in 1911, William Golding ranks 12. Before him are Georges Pompidou, Juan Manuel Fangio, Emil Cioran, Nino Rota, Władysław Szpilman, and Võ Nguyên Giáp. After him are Marshall McLuhan, Jack Ruby, Todor Zhivkov, Mikhail Botvinnik, Robert Johnson, and Czesław Miłosz. Among people deceased in 1993, William Golding ranks 6. Before him are Pablo Escobar, Audrey Hepburn, Federico Fellini, Rudolf Nureyev, and Frank Zappa. After him are Erich Hartmann, Baudouin of Belgium, James Hunt, Turgut Özal, Ferruccio Lamborghini, and Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona.
1911 - 1974
HPI: 79.68
Rank: 6
1911 - 1995
HPI: 79.37
Rank: 7
1911 - 1995
HPI: 79.13
Rank: 8
1911 - 1979
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 9
1911 - 2000
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 10
1911 - 2013
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 11
1911 - 1993
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 12
1911 - 1980
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 13
1911 - 1967
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 14
1911 - 1998
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 15
1911 - 1995
HPI: 76.05
Rank: 16
1911 - 1938
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 17
1911 - 2004
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 18
1949 - 1993
HPI: 85.91
Rank: 1
1929 - 1993
HPI: 85.15
Rank: 2
1920 - 1993
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 3
1938 - 1993
HPI: 80.88
Rank: 4
1940 - 1993
HPI: 78.14
Rank: 5
1911 - 1993
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 6
1922 - 1993
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 7
1930 - 1993
HPI: 77.39
Rank: 8
1947 - 1993
HPI: 77.04
Rank: 9
1927 - 1993
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 10
1916 - 1993
HPI: 75.53
Rank: 11
1913 - 1993
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, William Golding ranks 177 out of 6,924. Before him are James Chadwick (1891), George Boole (1815), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), Jeff Beck (1944), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830), and Ken Loach (1936). After him are Cary Grant (1904), Henry III of England (1207), Brian Johnson (1947), George Best (1946), Bon Scott (1946), and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792).
1891 - 1974
HPI: 78.31
Rank: 171
1815 - 1864
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 172
1825 - 1895
HPI: 78.23
Rank: 173
1944 - Present
HPI: 78.16
Rank: 174
1830 - 1903
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 175
1936 - Present
HPI: 78.11
Rank: 176
1911 - 1993
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 177
1904 - 1986
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 178
1207 - 1272
HPI: 78.01
Rank: 179
1947 - Present
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 180
1946 - 2005
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 181
1946 - 1980
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 182
1792 - 1822
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 183
Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Golding ranks 24. Before him are Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), John Milton (1608), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), Roald Dahl (1916), C. S. Lewis (1898), and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759). After him are Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), Ian Fleming (1908), Terry Pratchett (1948), John Keats (1795), Robert Burns (1759), and William Wordsworth (1770).
1343 - 1400
HPI: 79.96
Rank: 18
1608 - 1674
HPI: 79.75
Rank: 19
1917 - 2008
HPI: 79.21
Rank: 20
1916 - 1990
HPI: 78.96
Rank: 21
1898 - 1963
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 22
1759 - 1797
HPI: 78.66
Rank: 23
1911 - 1993
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 24
1792 - 1822
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 25
1908 - 1964
HPI: 77.91
Rank: 26
1948 - 2015
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 27
1795 - 1821
HPI: 77.77
Rank: 28
1759 - 1796
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 29
1770 - 1850
HPI: 77.48
Rank: 30