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William Golding

  • Poems

    Poems
    His first book published called poems was a book about poem aptly.
  • Teachings

    Teachings
    Golding started teaching to follow in his fathers footsteps. Teaching these young kids later on lead to an inspiration to write his first book.
  • Royal Navy

    Royal Navy
    He left teaching and joined the Royal Navy and fought in World War II. He sent six years on a boat, this made him develop a lifelong romance for sailing the sea.
  • Lord of the Flies

    Lord of the Flies
    He was rejected 21 times until he then published his very first novel, Lord of the Flies.About young boys survival on an abandoned island. He got the inspiration to write about young boys from his past job as a teacher.
  • The film

    The film
    After his retirement from teaching a man names Peter Brook decided to make a film based off of Williams novel.
  • The end

    The end
    He had never stop writing and lived with his wife and two kids in a quiet place. Soon later he died of a heart attack. After his death his second novel was published, The Double Tongue. Not only was he good at writing novels but he did plays, essays, and poetry.