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William Golding

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  • birth

    birth
    he was born on Sep 19 1911in Newquay, Cornwall, UK at his maternal grandmother's house
  • Period: to

    lifespan

  • childhood

    childhood
    At the age of 8, he got a prize for a book with an inscription: Billy Golding 1919 Prize for General Improvement.

  • Brasenose College, Oxford

    Brasenose College, Oxford
    this is when he went in 1930

  • married

    married
    Ann Brookfield is his wife

  • engaged

    engaged
    Golding was engaged to Molly Evans, a woman from Marlborough. he broke off the engagement

  • first kid

    first kid
    David (born September 1940) and Judith (born July 1945).

  • war time

    war time
    During World War II, Golding joined the Royal Navy in 1940.

  • secend kid

    secend kid
    Judith (born July 1945).

  • LOF

    LOF
    September 17, 1954 is when the book relesed

  • Death

    Death
    In 1985, Golding and his wife moved to Tullimaar in Perranarworthal, near Truro, Cornwall. He died of heart failure eight years later on 19 June 1993.