William Golding (The Lord of The Flies)

By gisellealvarenga

  • Golding Early Life

    Golding was born in Cornwall, England in September 11,1911. He grew up with his mother and father in a house next to a graveyard. His mother was a suffragette and his father a schoolmaster.

  • Golding School

    Golding attended the school where his father teach,Marlborough Grammar School. He went to college at Oxford where his father hoped he take science but instead he graduated with a diploma of education and a Bachelors of Art in English. He published his first poem in college.
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    Golding Career

    in 1935 he began to teach at Salisbury at Bishop Wordsworth's School. In 1940 he left his job of teaching to join the Royal Navy for WWII. In 1945 he went back to teaching and writing.

  • First published

    Golding thought humanity was evil so he combined that with his schoolboys and came up with The lord of the Flies. He got 21 rejections before publishing this book.

  • Golding Legacy

    Golding sent the rest of his years with his wife and two kids.Ten years later, he received the honorary designation Commander of the British Empire and was knighted in 1988. Golding's greatest honor was being awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature.He soon died from a heart attack on 1993.