William Golding

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  • Brith

    Brith
    William Golding was born on september 9th 1911. Newquay, Cornwall England is where he was born he was the child of Alec and Mildred Golding .

  • Childhood

    He bullied his peers as a child. He called him as a child a brat.

  • Education

    Education
    Educated at Marlborough Grammar School, where his father taught, and at Brasenose College, Oxford,

  • Career

    Career
    He started teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury in 1935. He temporarily left teaching in 1940 to join the Royal Navy.

  • married

    married
    Golding was engaged to Molly Evans, a woman from Marlborough, who was well liked by both of his parents. However, he broke off the engagement and married Ann Brookfield, an analytical chemist, on 30 September 1939.

  • Military

    Military
    He joined the royal Navy .

  • Family

    Family
    He has two kids with his wife one named judy and the other david . David in 1940 and Judy in 1945

  • First Book

    First Book
    In 1954 he published his first novel, Lord of the Flies.

  • Awards

    Awards
    The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983. William Golding. William Golding's first novel, Lord of the Flies, 1954, rapidly became a world success and has so remained.

  • Death

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