lord of the flies

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  • birth

    born September 19,1911
    he was born in a house by a cemetery
    his mother was a strong supporter of the British suffragette movement.

  • teaching

    1939 began teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury at Bishop Wordsworth's School.
    he married Ann Brookfield, with whom he had two children in the same year

  • navy

    he left teaching to join the royal navy
    five years he spent in the Royal Navy
    during ww2

  • first novel

    1954 he published his first novel Lord of the Flies
    he left Bishop Wordsworth's School to write full time.
    combined that perception of humanity with his years of experience with schoolboys

  • noble prize

    1983 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

  • death

    June 19, 1993, he died in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England.