GOLDING, William Rites of Passage London: Faber & Faber, 1980. Price: $30.00 Hardcover. First edition. Bottom cover corners are bumped, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Item #292692 ISBN: 0571116396 Add to Cart Ask a Question item image William Golding birth name: William Gerald Golding born: 9/19/1911 died: 6/19/1993 nationality: Great Britain View Reference Info Biography English novelist who in 1983 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his parables of the human condition. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore