the life of William Golding

  • birth

    birth
    BORin Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford.
  • The Change

    The Change
    William went on to attend Brasenose College at Oxford University. he went to be a scientist, but William opted to study English literature instead. In 1934, a year before he graduated, William published his first work, a book of poetry aptly entitled Poems.
  • unruly young boys

    unruly young boys
    Golding worked iin settlement houses and the theater, He decided to teach english and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth's school in Salisbury.
  • end of college

    end of college
    he graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a diploma in education.Then he went to pursoe his book.
  • getting money

    getting money
    Golding worked as a writer, actor, and producer with a small theater in an part of London, paying his bills with a job as social worker.
  • navy time

    navy time
    The five years Golding spent in the navy made an enormous impact, exposing him to the incredible cruelty and barbarity of which humankind is capable
  • the success from rejection

    the success from rejection
    After 21 rejections,Golding published his first and most acclaimed novel. The novel told the gripping story of adolescent boys stranded on a deserted island after a plane wreck.
  • Noble Prize

    Noble Prize
    he was critically acclaimed a noble prize for Lord of The Flies in 1983.
  • death

    death
    golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthel Cornvall. He was survived by his wife and their two children.
  • work of writing

    work of writing
    medium was fiction, from an early age,He began reading Tennyson at age seven and got himself in Shakespeare's work. peice of Golding's poems was published as part of Macmillan's Contemporary Poets series