William Golding

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  • this guy was born

    this guy was born
    William Golding was born in 1911 in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England

  • Early Education

    Early Education
    Attempted to write a novel at 12

  • Started teaching

    Started teaching
    William Golding started teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury

  • Word war II experience

    Word war II experience
    “I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.”

  • Stopped Teaching

    Stopped Teaching
    He temporarily left teaching in 1940 to join the Royal Navy

  • Published First Novel

    Published First Novel
    In 1954 he published his first novel, Lord of the Flies

  • Novel

    Novel
    Published The Inheritors

  • Prize won

    Prize won
    won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize

  • Novel

    Novel
    Published Darkness Visible

  • Prize won

    Prize won
    Won the Booker Prize

  • Prize won

    Prize won
    Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

  • Knighted

    Knighted
    William Golding was Knighted in 1988

  • Novel

    Novel
    Published Fire Down Below

  • this guy died

    this guy died
    William Golding died in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England of a Heart Attack

  • Novel

    Novel
    Rites of Passage Novel Published