William golding

WIlliam Golding

By NICHOLAS SCHMIDT

  • Birth

    Birth
    Will was born on September 19, 1911, in Saint Columb Minor.
    Williams Childhood Will was raised in a 14th-century house next door to a graveyard. His mother, Mildred, was an active suffragette who fought for women's right to vote. His father, Alex, worked as a schoolmaster.
    Educated at Marlborough Grammar School, where his father taught, and at Brasenose College, Oxford, Golding graduated in 1935. https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Golding

  • School and work life

    School and work life
    In 1930, Golding went to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he read Natural Sciences for two years before transferring to English for his final two years. After working in a settlement house and in small theatre companies, he became a schoolmaster at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury in April 1940.

  • Military Career

    Military Career
    During World War II, Golding joined the Royal Navy in 1940. He served on a destroyer which was briefly involved in the pursuit and sinking of the German battleship Bismarck. Golding participated in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, commanding a landing craft that fired salvoes of rockets onto the beaches.

  • After The War

    After The War
    After the war, he resumed teaching at Bishop Wordsworth's until 1961.

  • The First N ovel

    The First N ovel
    Golding's first published novel was Lord of the Flies, the story of a group of schoolboys isolated on a coral island who revert to savagery. Lord of the Flies was granted membership in the Royal Society of Literature.

  • The Lord Of The files movie

    The Lord Of The files movie
    Lord of the Flies, British adventure-drama film, released in 1963, that was based on the acclaimed allegorical 1954 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding.

  • Williams Books

    Williams Books
    William Wrote
    Rites of Passage
    Lord of the Flies
    The Inheritors
    Darkness Visible
    Pincher Martin
    Close quarters
    The Spire
    Fire down below
    The Double Tongue
    The Scorpion God
    Free Fall
    The Paper Men
    The Pyramid
    The Hot Gates
    An Egyptian Journal
    To the Ends of the Earth
    The brass butterfly.

  • Nobel Prize

    Nobel Prize
    The 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the British author William Golding "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today".

  • Knighted By The Queen

    Knighted By The Queen
    He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988.

  • Death

    Death
    William died in Jun 19, 1993.