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William Golding was born in 1911 in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England -
Attempted to write a novel at 12 -
William Golding started teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury -
“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.” -
He temporarily left teaching in 1940 to join the Royal Navy -
In 1954 he published his first novel, Lord of the Flies -
Published The Inheritors -
won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize -
Published Darkness Visible -
Won the Booker Prize -
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature -
William Golding was Knighted in 1988 -
Published Fire Down Below -
William Golding died in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England of a Heart Attack -
Rites of Passage Novel Published