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It's a Boy
William Golding is born in Cornwall, England.
His parents were Mildred and Alec.
I bet his first word was "dad". He seems like a dad's boy. -
Big Brain Time
Golding started attending Brasenose College in 1930.
He spent 2 years studying science but then decided he would rather look at words all day.
My, what an interesting life. -
500 IQ
Golding graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a diploma in education. -
Period: to
Work It, Queen
Golding worked as a writer, actor, and producer with a small theater in an unfashionable part of London so that he could afford breathing. -
Back to School
Golding began teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury (steak) at Bishop Wordsworth's School. -
Put a Ring on it
Golding marries Ann Brookfield who ends up vomiting out 2 children. -
Period: to
Yarr
Golding spends some time in the Royal Navy, which ended up providing tons of nightmare fuel for his writing. -
King of the Bugs
Golding publishes Lord of the Flies, the book about kids killing each other because fun. -
Another Book
Golding follows LotF with The Inheritors, which we only care about because apparently it was Golding's favorite book. -
Me Am Royalty
Golding is granted membership in the Royal Society of Literature so that he can flex. -
AnOtHeR bOoK
Golding publishes Pincher Martin, a book about a guy doing something in the sea, I guess. -
Anudda Buk
Golding publishes Free Fall, which was about... something. -
Get Out of my Classroom
Golding stops teaching so he can spend his life vomiting into a typewriter or something like that. -
kooB rehtonA
Golding publishes The Spire, a book that probably includes words. -
Woah
Golding receives the honorary designation Commander of the British Empire -
Another Book but it's Not a Book
Golding publishes a collection of essays, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces. -
anotheR booK
Golding reinvents Egyptian pyramids and then decides to write a book called The Pyramid except he actually just wrote a book and didn't do anything else. -
Another Book x3
Golding hits everyone with a triple whammy when he publishes the collection The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels. And then somebody figured out he scammed us and only wrote 2 new books, because one of the novels was published in 1956 and then got turned into a play. -
another_book.txt
Golding publishes Darkness Visible and I don't care enough to write what it's about. -
Another Collection of Essays
Golding publishes yet another collection, A Moving Target. -
What a Flex
Golding is awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. -
aNoThEr BoOk
Golding publishes The Paper Men and everyone turns the books back into paper by recycling them because the book was garbage. -
Yet Another Collection
Golding publishes An Egyptian Journal which is all about the diary he stole from a guy in Egypt. Just kidding it's another essay collection. -
woaH
Golding gets knighted. -
3x kooB rehtonA
Golding publishes the last novel of The Sea Trilogy, which wins the Booker Prize.
Rites of Passage (1980)
Close Quarters (1987)
Fire Down Below (1989) -
Oof Ouch Owie
Golding stubbed his toe a little too hard and died.