GOLDING

(William, 1911-1993, Author of 'Lord of the Flies')

Long Typed Letter Signed to Pauline

commiserating with her for her atrocious luck. You sound very brave about it though and I'm told doctors are working all the time towards effective repair work... I'm glad you like my books - one knows so little of one's possible readers. Your questions aren't so easy to answer though. I find ideas come easily? I suppose they do, when they come. That is to say one moment they aren't and the next moment they're there! But I seem to get them rarely. How do I record my ideas? I don't but relie on an unreliable memory. Some have got away and I'm sure they were good. Have I a favourite time for writing? The morning is best... I have to force myself to begin... I have never written at night which makes me sound a bit dull I think. An Egyptian Journal is different from other books because it was an extended version of the journal I kept when my wife and I were in Egypt. It's very nearly a factual account... 1 side A4, Tullimaar, Cornwall headed paper, 30th September

Item Date: 1985

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Golding is best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954). He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Darkness Visible in 1979, and the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980. In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and was according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography an unexpected and even contentious choice. Having been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1966 New Year Honours, Golding was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1988 Birthday Honours. In September 1993, only a few months after his unexpected death, the First International William Golding Conference was held in France. In 1985, Golding and his wife moved to a house called Tullimaar in Perranarworthal, near Truro, Cornwall.

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