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Willian Golding was born
William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall, England. His mother, Mildred, was a strong supporter of the British suffragette movement. His father, Alec, was a schoolteacher and an ardent advocate of rationalism, -
Attempted to write his first novel, Poems
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Golding married Ann Brookfield
Golding married Ann Brookfield, an analytic chemist,[9](p161) on 30 September 1939. They had two children, Judith and David. -
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Golding temporarily abandoned the profession to join the Royal Navy and fight in World War II.
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Attempted to publish Faber & Faber
In September 1953, after many rejections from other publishers, Golding sent a manuscript to Faber & Faber and was initially rejected by their reader. His book however was championed by Charles Monteith, a new editor at the firm. Monteith asked for some changes to the text and the novel was published in September 1954 as Lord of the Flies. -
Faber & Faber was Edited and published as Lord of the Flies
the book set the tone for Golding’s future work, in which he continued to examine man’s internal struggle between good and evil. Since its publication, the novel has been widely regarded as a classic, worthy of in-depth analysis and discussion in classrooms around the world. -
The Inheritors was published
The Inheritors (1955) shows "new people" (generally identified with Homo sapiens sapiens), triumphing over a gentler race (generally identified with Neanderthals) by deceit and violence. -
Pincher Martin was published
Pincher Martin records the thoughts of a drowning sailor. -
Free Fall was published
Free Fall (1959) explores the issue of free choice as a prisoner held in solitary confinement in a German POW camp during World War Two looks back over his life. -
Lord of the Flies the movie was released
the year after Golding retired from teaching, Peter Brook made a film adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel -
The Spire was published
The Spire (1964) follows the building (and near collapse) of a huge spire onto a medieval cathedral (generally assumed to be Salisbury Cathedral); the spire symbolizing both spiritual aspiration and worldly vanity. -
The Pyramid was published
In his 1967 novel The Pyramid three separate stories in a shared setting (a small English town in the 1920s) are linked by a narrator -
The Scorpion God was published
The Scorpion God (1971) consists of three novellas, the first set in a prehistoric African hunter-gatherer band ('Clonk, Clonk'), the second in an ancient Egyptian court ('The Scorpion God') and the third in the court of a Roman emperor ('Envoy Extraordinary'). -
Darkness Visible was published
Darkness Visible (1979), which is about a terrorist group, a paedophile teacher, and a mysterious angel-like figure who survives a fire in The Blitz, -
The Paper Men was published
The Paper Men (1984) which is about the conflict between a writer and his biographer -
he was knighted by England’s Queen Elizabeth II.
Golding was very pleased to be knighted - it was the only honour he was given that formally affected the status of his wife Ann, and this gave him great satisfaction. -
Died from a heart attack
