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september 19 1911
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he came a teacher in 1935
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he stop teaching for a while and join the navy in 1940
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he started back teaching in 1945 after world war ii
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In 1954, after 21 rejections, Golding published his first and most acclaimed novel
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in 1963, the year after Golding retired from teaching,
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Golding’s writing career were Rites of Passage (winner of the 1980 Booker McConnell Prize)
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Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature
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n 1988 he was knighted by England’s Queen Elizabeth II.
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In 1990 a new film version of the Lord of the Flies was released, bringing the book to the attention of a new generation of readers.
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in 1992 he had gotten very sick
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On June 19, 1993, Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall
