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lord of the flys

  • birth of william golding

    the day william golding was born september 19 1911
  • start school

    Golding went to Marlborough Grammar School, where his father Alec was science master.
  • College

    Golding went to Brasenose College, Oxford, to read Natural Sciences
  • the potery book

    his first work, a book of poetry aptly entitled Poems.The collection was largely overlooked by critics.
  • when william golding started teaching

    1935 started teaching english and philosophy
  • Married

    He met Ann Brookfield, and they fell in love.
    In September, a few weeks after the declaration of war, they were married in Maidstone Registry Office.
  • the navy

    he temporaily left teaching in 1940 and joined the royal navy.he fought in ww1
  • ww2

    During World War II, he fought battleships at the sinking of the Bismarck, and also fended off submarines and planes. Lieutenant Golding was even placed in command of a rocket-launching craft.
  • back to teaching

    In 1945, after World War II had ended, Golding went back to teaching and writing.
  • The first book

    he created his first book in 1954: loard of the flys. after 21 rejections, he published his first and most acclaimed novel,
  • Nobel prize

    In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
  • The death

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