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where he was raised.
He was raised in a 14th-century house next door to a graveyard. -
birth
William Golding was born September 19, 1911, in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England. -
graduation
In 1934, a year before he graduated, William published his first work, a book of poetry aptly entitled Poems. The collection was largely overlooked by critics. -
teaching
1935 he started teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury. He temporarily left teaching in 1940 to join the Royal Navy. -
teaching english
In 1935 Golding took a position teaching English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury -
royal navy
Golding spent the better part of the next six years on a boat, except for a seven-month stint in New York, where he assisted Lord Cherwell at the Naval Research Establishment. -
lord of the flies
In 1954, after 21 rejections, Golding published his first and most acclaimed novel, Lord of the Flies. The novel told the gripping story of a group of adolescent boys stranded on a deserted island after a plane wreck. -
lord of the flies
In 1963, the year after Golding retired from teaching, Peter Brook made a film adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel. Two decades later, at the age of 73, Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1988 he was knighted by England’s Queen Elizabeth II. -
death
On June 19, 1993, he died in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England.