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1、PartTwoBackgroundInformationENTERAuthorRodin’sThinkerGoddessVenusBackgroundInformationContentsAuthorWilliamGoldingAuthorTobecontinuedonthenextpage.SirWilliamGeraldGolding(September19,1911—June19,1993)wasanEnglishnovelist,poetandwinnerof1983NobelLaureateinLiterature:“forhisnovelswhich,wit
2、htheperspicuityofrealisticnarrativeartandthediversityanduniversalityofmyth,illuminatethehumanconditionintheworldoftoday.”TheAuthor’sBackgroundAuthorTobecontinuedonthenextpage.BornonSeptember19,1911atSt.ColumbMinor,avillagenearNewquay,Cornwall,hestartedwritingattheageofseven.HewenttoOxfor
3、dUniversity(BrasenoseCollege)in1930,wherehestudiednaturalsciencesandEnglishlanguage.Hisfirstbook,acollectionofpoems,appearedayearbeforeGoldingreceivedhisBA.AuthorTobecontinuedonthenextpage.TheAuthor’sBackgroundHemarriedAnnBrookfield,ananalyticalchemist,in1939.HebecameateacherofEnglishand
4、philosophyatBishopWordsworth’sSchoolinSalisbury.DuringWorldWarIIheservedintheRoyalNavyandwasinvolvedinthesinkingofGermany’smightiestbattleship,theBismarck.HeparticipatedintheinvasionofNormandyonD-Dayandatwar’sendwentbacktoteachingand]writing.AuthorTheAuthor’sBackgroundIn1961hissuccessful
5、booksallowedGoldingtoleavehisteachingpostandhespentayearaswriter-in-residenceatHollinsCollegeinVirginia.Hethenbecameafull-timewriter.HereceivedaknighthoodfromQueenElizabethIIin1988.WilliamGoldingdiedinhishomeatPerranarworthal,nearTruro,CornwallonJune19,1993.Tobecontinuedonthenextpage.Wil
6、liamGolding’smainworksAuthorTobecontinuedonthenextpage.Poems(1934)LordoftheFlies(1954)TheInheritors(1955)PincherMartin(1956)FreeFall(1959)TheSpire(1964)DarknessVisible(1979)TheTrilogyRitesofPassage(1980,BookerPrize)CloseQuarters(1987)FireDownBelow(1989),republishedunderthegeneraltitleToT
7、heEndsoftheEarthQuotationsoftheauthorAuthorTheendofAuthor.Languagefitsoverexperiencelikeastraight-jacket.Myyesterdayswalkwithme.Theykeepstep,theyaregrayfacesthatpeerovermyshoulder.Novelistsdonotwriteasbirdssing,bythepushofnature.Itispartofthejobthatthereshouldbemuchroutin
