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born in Cornwall, England, in 1911
His mom was a supporter of the British suffragette movement. His dad was a schoolteacher and an ardent advocate of rationalism. -
Golding began attending Brasenose College at Oxford
He spent two years studying science and in his 3rd year he switched to the literature program. He dreamed of being a poet. -
graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a diploma in education
He graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a diploma in education. Golding dismissed part of Macmillan's Contemporary Poets series as juvenile. -
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Golding worked as a writer, actor, and producer with a small theater in an unfashionable part of London
He was paying bills as a social worker. He considered the theater his strongest literary influence. -
Golding began teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury at Bishop Wordsworth's School and he also got married
He married Ann Brookfield and got two kids. He also began teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury at Bishop Wordsworth's School in the same year. -
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Golding spent time in the navy
He exposed himself to the brutality of humankind. He wrote about his wartime experiences later. -
Published Lord of The Flies
Golding combined that perception of humanity with his years of experience with schoolboys. -
The Inheritors written
The Inheritors was a depiction of how the violent, deceitful Homo sapiens achieved victory over the gentler Neanderthals. Although this novel is the one readers have the most difficulty understanding, it remained Golding's favorite throughout his life. -
Pincher Martin followed
The book concerns survival after shipwreck. Navy lieutenant Christopher Martin is thrown from his ship during combat in World War II. -
The Brass Butterfly
One of Golding novels was performed as a comedic play titled The Brass Butterfly. It was preformed in London. -
Free Fall Written
Free Fall is told with a first person narrator, an artist named Samuel Mountjoy. The novel takes as a model Dante's La Vita Nuova, a collection of love poems interspersed with Dante's own commentary on the poems. -
Stopped Teaching at Bishop Wordsworth's School
Golding remained in the teaching position until 1961 when he left Bishop Wordsworth's School to write full time. -
The Spire written
The book was about fourteenth-century Dean of Barchester Cathedral decides that God wants a 400-foot-high spire added to the top of the cathedral, although the cathedral's foundation is not sufficient to hold the weight of the spire. -
he Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces was published
He published three collections of essays which are often comic and expand upon or illuminate his novels. The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces was published in 1966. -
The Pyramid written
The Pyramid (1967) provides an examination of English social class within the context of a town ironically named Stilbourne. A primary issue in this story is music, and the novel utilizes the same structure as the musical form sonata. -
The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels written
Golding's next publication was a collection entitled The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels (1971). Each story explores the negative repercussions of technological progress — an idea that was in sharp contrast to the technology worship of the space age. -
Darkness Visible
Darkness Visible addresses the interdependence of good and evil, exemplified in the two main characters: Sophy, who plots to kidnap a child for ransom, and Matty, who gives his life to prevent it. -
Rites of Passage
Rites of Passage won the Booker Prize, a prestigious British award. Golding's greatest honor was being awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. -
A Moving Target
The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces was published in 1966; A Moving Target appeared in 1982; and An Egyptian Journal followed in 1985. -
Nobel Prize for Literature.
Rites of Passage won the Booker Prize, a prestigious British award. Golding's greatest honor was being awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. -
The Paper Men
The Paper Men was condemned by reviewers as his worst work, partly because the novel seemed to condemn literary critics. The plot concerns an elderly novelist trying to elude a young scholar who wants to write his biography. -
was knighted
Following the publication of his best-known work, Lord of the Flies, Golding was granted membership in the Royal Society of Literature in 1955. Ten years later, he received the honorary designation Commander of the British Empire (CBE) and was knighted in 1988. -
Golding died in Cornwall
Golding died in Cornwall in 1993