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According to one source, Sir William Golding was born on September 19, 1911, Saint Columb Minor (near Newquay), Cornwall.
The BBC gives more detail: "William Golding was born in his grandmother's house at 47 Mountwise (Mount Wise), Newquay, Cornwall in 1911".
William Golding's former home, Tullimaar House in Perranarworthal, Cornwall
William Golding's former home, Tullimaar House in Perranarworthal, Cornwall
A letter, soon after the author received the Nobel Prize for Literature:
Nobel Lecture
Nobel Banquet Speech
An extract from 'My First Book' (William Golding, A Moving Target, 1982):
"I wanted to go back to Cornwall and the sea but was in Wiltshire.. While walking on the Marlborough Downs...I saw what was rare in those days, a seagull come swooping down along the wind. I was fourteen or thereabouts, With the sight there rose in my mind as an automatic expression of what I felt, the following rhymes...
Across the sunlit downs the west wind sings
Its ocean melodies. I stand and see
You wheel the white flash of your long, swift wings
And for this moment being I am free:
As one who holds a shell against his ear
And listens rapt until the sullen roar
Seems in his soul to echo faint and clear
The slow surf-murmur of a distant shore."
Nobel Banquet Speech
An extract from 'My First Book' (William Golding, A Moving Target, 1982):
"I wanted to go back to Cornwall and the sea but was in Wiltshire.. While walking on the Marlborough Downs...I saw what was rare in those days, a seagull come swooping down along the wind. I was fourteen or thereabouts, With the sight there rose in my mind as an automatic expression of what I felt, the following rhymes...
Across the sunlit downs the west wind sings
Its ocean melodies. I stand and see
You wheel the white flash of your long, swift wings
And for this moment being I am free:
As one who holds a shell against his ear
And listens rapt until the sullen roar
Seems in his soul to echo faint and clear
The slow surf-murmur of a distant shore."
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