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William Golding

By McBride30

  • Graduating Brasenose College

    Graduating Brasenose College
    After finishing primary school, William went on to Brasenos College at Oxford University. William aspired to study English literature and had already published his first work, Poems, when he graduated.

  • Bishop Wordsworth’s School

    Bishop Wordsworth’s School
    Golding worked in settlement houses and the theater after graduating from college. Golding went to Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury to teach English and philosophy.

  • Marriage

    Marriage
    Golding was betrothed to Molly Evans, a Marlborough woman who was liked by both of his parents, but they broke up and he married Ann Brookfield, an analytical chemist, with whom he had two children, David and Judith.

  • Royal Navy

    Royal Navy
    William fought battleships at the sinking of the Bismarck during WWII, as well as submarines and planes. Lieutenant Golding was even entrusted with the command of a rocket-launching vessel.

  • WW2 Ended

    WW2 Ended
    Golding's service in the war, like his teaching experience, would provide fertile ground for his fiction. Golding returned to teaching and writing when WWII ended.

  • Lord of the Flies

    Lord of the Flies
    Lord of the Flies, Golding's first and most celebrated work, was released. The compelling narrative of a group of adolescent lads stranded on a remote island following a plane crash was told in the novel.

  • Lord of the Flies Movie

    Lord of the Flies Movie
    The work has been widely acknowledged as a masterpiece since its release, deserving of in-depth examination and discussion in classrooms all around the world. Peter Brook made a cinematic adaptation of Golding's critically praised novel the year after he resigned from teaching.

  • Nobel Prize Winner

    Nobel Prize Winner
    Golding received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983, at the age of 73. For the novel The Lord of the Flies, which he wrote with such brilliance.

  • Knighthood

    Knighthood
    Queen Elizabeth II of England knighted Golding. In WW2, he was honoured for his gallantry in assisting the wounded.

  • Death & Publish of The Double Tongue

    Death & Publish of The Double Tongue
    In Perranarworthal, Cornwall, Golding died of a heart attack. Golding's completed manuscript for The Double Tongue was published posthumously after his death.