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William Golding

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  • Birth

    Birth
    He was born in Newquay (a town in Cornwall, England) in his grandmothers house at 47 Mountwise.

  • Started attending college

    Started attending college
    William Golding began attending Brasenose College at Oxford and studied English Literature.

  • Published "Poems"

    Published "Poems"
    William Golding released his first book of poems, simply called "Poems."

  • William Golding Married

    William Golding Married
    William Golding married Ann Brookfield, an analytical chemist.

  • Joined Royal Navy

    Joined Royal Navy
    William Golding joined the Royal Navy and was sent to work at a weapons research establishment for roughly one year.

  • Worked as a high school teacher

    Worked as a high school teacher
    William Golding became a high school teacher for English and philosophy, and also wrote books is almost all of his free time

  • Published his first book

    Published his first book
    Faber publishing company published William Golding's first book, Lord of the Flies. This was only published after many of his works had been rejected by many other publishing companies.
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    Published most of his literary works

    *Lord of the Flies (novel) 1954
    The Inheritors (novel) 1955
    *Pincher Martin (novel) 1956
    The Brass Butterfly (play) 1958
    Free Fall (novel) 1959
    *The Spire (novel) 1964
    The Hot Gates (essays) 1965
    The Pyramid (novel) 1967
    The Scorpion God (three short novels) 1971
    Darkness Visible (novel) 1979
    *Rites of Passage (novel) 1980
    A Moving Target (essays and autobiographical pieces) 1982
    *The Paper Men (novel) 1984
    An Egyptian Journal 1985
    Close Quarters (novel) 1987
    Fire Down Below (novel) 1989

  • First film adaptation

    First film adaptation
    William Golding got his first black and white large-scale film adaptation of Lord of the Flies.

  • Won the "Booker Prize"

    Won the "Booker Prize"
    He won the “Booker Prize” for his book "Rites of Passage."

  • Won the Nobel Prize

    Won the Nobel Prize
    William Golding won the Nobel Prize in literature. When awarded the prize the foundation cited: “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

    Knighted
    William Golding was knighted in 1988.

  • Second large-scale film

    Second large-scale film
    Second large-scale film adaptation of Lord of the Flies, released 10 years after the first