GOLDING, William Close Quarters London: Faber and Faber, 1987. Price: $35.00 Hardcover. First edition. Top corners bumped, thus near fine in fine dustwrapper. Item #106286 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