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William Golding 1911-1935
William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall, England, in 1911. His mother, Mildred, was a supporter of the British suffragette movement. His father, Alec, was a schoolteacher. His dad had a influnce over his son and until leaving for college Golding went to the same school his dad taught. Two years in science and switching to literature programs in college so he could follow in what he enjoyed. 1935, he graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a diploma in education -
William Golding 1935-1939
From 1935 to 1939, Golding worked as a writer, actor, and producer with a small theater in a part of London while paying his bills with a job as a social worker. He considered the theater his strongest literary influence. -
After 1939
In 1939, Golding began teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury at Bishop Wordsworth's School. The same year. He married Ann Brookfield and he had two children with her. He also spent time in the royal navy during World War 2. But with that Golding still stayed in the teaching position until leaving so he could write full time. -
While in the navy
Golding in the military experinced hostility and cruelty people are capable of. While he wrote about wartime experinces, he asseretd at man created evil, as bee produces honey. -
Lotf
In Lord of the Flies, which was published in 1954 after being rejected 21 times then being published, Golding combined that perception of humanity with his years of experience with schoolboys.It takes place on a tropical island as a protected environment in which a group of marooned British schoolboys act out their worst impulses. The novel illustrates the failure of the rationalism espoused by Golding's father. -
Pincher Martin
Pincher Martin. Golding wrote another book named Pincher Martin. Its about survial afetr a shipwreck. Where a lieutenant in the navy is thrown from his ship during combat and finds a way to cling on a rock. -
The Spire
. A fourteenth-century Dean of Barchester Cathedral decides that God wants a 400-foot-high spire added to the top of the cathedral. But the weigth can't support it. -
The pyramid
The music form sonata in the town of Stillborne -
A play
The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels
One of the novellas which was the first published was transformed into The Brass Butterfly a comedical play -
Darkness visible
It addresses good and evil. Sophy who wants to kidnap a child for a ransom. Matty someone who gives his live to stop it. -
The sea trilogy
Three novels he wrote. Edmund Talbot who grows emotionally and in morals during a sea journey to Austrailia.
1980
1987
1989 -
The paper men
A elderly novelist trying to escape a young scholar who wishes to write his biography. It was labled his worst work by critics. -
William Golding's death
In June 20th 1993 Golding dies of congestive heart failure. But not befire finishing his final work and having many others.