William Golding Timeline

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  • Birth

    William Golding is born in Cornwall, England

  • School

    Golding attends Marlborough Grammar School from 1923-1930

  • College

    Golding attends Brasenose College in 1930

  • Publishing poems

    Golding gets a book of his poems published by his friend from Oxford, Adam Bittleston

  • Teaching

    He began to teach philosophy and English as Schoolmaster from 1939-1945 and then switched to just teaching English from 1945-1961at Bishop Wordsworth's School

  • Marriage

    Golding marries Ann Brookfield in 1939 and they later went on to have 2 kids named Judith and David

  • First Novel

    Golding wrote his first novel in 1954 called "Lord of the Flies" after multiple rejections from publishers

  • Other Novels

    Other novels that he wrote include "The Inheritors", "Pincher Martin", "Free Fall", "The Spire", "The Pyramid", and "The Scorpion God". These novels were all wrote from 1956-1971.

  • Success of his writing

    In 1979, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and in 1980 won the Booker Prize. In 1988 Golding was appointed a "Knight Bachelor".

  • Death

    On June 19th, 1993, Golding died of heart failure in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England.