William Golding

By ReeseStuart865

  • William was born

    William was born
    William was born september 19, 1911, Newquay, Cornwall, England

  • School

    School
    He went to, basenose College, Marlborough Royal Free Grammar School

  • War

    He fought for the British Navy in ww2.

  • LOF

    LOF
    William Golding wrote The Lord of the Flies.

  • The Inheritors

    The Inheritors
    William wrote a book about eight neanderthals encountering another race of beings like them but different in a way.

  • Pincher Martin

    Pincher Martin
    The book, Pincher Martin is about the survival and psychophysical, spiritual and existential plight of one Christopher Hadley "Pincher" Martin, a temporary naval lieutenant who believes himself to be the sole survivor of a military torpedo destroyer which sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean.

  • The Spire

    The Spire
    William golding wrote The Spire to tell the story of one man's vision, the construction of an enormous spire onto a cathedral without foundations.

  • Awards

    Awards
    He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Darkness Visible in 1979

  • Awards

    Awards
    he also won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980

  • Rites of Passage

    Rites of Passage
    William Golding wrote a book in 1980 called the rites of passage, its about sailing.

  • Death

    Death
    In William Goldings time he wrote a total of 36 great books, and won many awards. Sadly, he died at a house called the Tullimaar House in Perranarworthal, United Kingdom.