GOLDING, William Close Quarters New: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1987. Price: $35.00 Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Item #310502 ISBN: 0374125104 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