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William Golding

By Maya Abbott

  • Birth

    Birth
    William was born on September 19, 1911. He was born in Newquay, United Kingdom. To his mother Mildred Golding and his father Alec Golding.

  • Schooling

    Schooling
    Brasenose College, Oxford, Golding graduated in 1935

  • marraige

    marraige
    He married Ann Brookfield, on 30 September 1939.

  • kids

    kids
    He had to kids David born September 1940 and Judith born July 1945

  • Life after school

    Life after school
    For several years he worked as a teacher before enlisting in the British Navy in 1940.

  • Published Lord of the flies

    Published Lord of the flies
    Willam Published Lord of the flies on September 17, 1954

  • award

    award
    He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980.

  • award

    award
    Golding won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Darkness Visible in 1979.

  • award

    award
    In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

  • death

    death
    He died June 19, 1993