William Golding

By ferng

  • Birth

    William Golding was born on September 19, 1911, in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England. He was raised in a 14th-century house next door to a graveyard. His mother, Mildred, was an active suffragette who fought for women’s right to vote. His father, Alex, worked as a school master.https://www.biography.com/writer/william-golding

  • teachings

    After college, Golding worked in settlement houses and the theater for a time. Eventually, he decided to follow in his father’s footsteps. In 1935 Golding took a position teaching English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury. Golding’s experience teaching unruly young boys would later serve as inspiration for his novel Lord of the Flies. https://www.biography.com/writer/william-golding

  • Royal Navy

    Golding spent the better part of the next six years on a boat, except for a seven-month stint in New York, where he assisted Lord Cherwell at the Naval Research Establishment. While in the Royal Navy, Golding developed a lifelong romance with sailing and the sea. Which he served in WW2

  • 'Lord of the Flies'

    n 1954, after 21 rejections, Golding published his first and most acclaimed novel, Lord of the Flies. The novel told the gripping story of a group of adolescent boys stranded on a deserted island after a plane wreck. Lord of the Flies explored the savage side of human nature as the boys, let loose from the constraints of society, brutally turned against one another in the face of an imagined enemy. https://www.biography.com/writer/william-golding

  • Free Fall

    His second novel is released showcasing his exploration of existential themes.

  • The inheritors

    Golding's second novel, is released, exploring the crash between Neanderthals' and Homo sapiens

  • Nobel Prize

    age of 73, Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature

  • The Paper Men

    a novel examining the corrupting influence of power.

  • Knighted by the queen

    William Golding knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature.

  • Death

    Death
    On June 19, 1993, Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall. After Golding died, his completed manuscript for The Double Tongue was published posthumously.