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Golding's Birth
Golding is born in Cornwall, England. His mother is a supporter of the suffragette movement while his father is a promoter of rationalism. -
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Teaching Job
Golding becomes an English and philosophy teacher at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury. His experience with the students at the school would later become inspiration for the boys in his novel Lord of the Flies -
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Royal Navy
Golding leaves his teaching job to fight in World War II with the Royal Navy. He becomes a Lieutenant and fights battleships, submarines, and planes. The horrors he witnesses during the war become his basis and reason for him writing Lord of the Flies -
Lord of the Flies
After 21 rejections, Lord of the Flies is finally published as Golding's first novel. Golding uses the story to explore man's struggle with good and evil. The book becomes an instant hit and is regarded as a classic worthy of analysis. -
The Inheritors
Golding publishes his second novel, his favorite throughout his life. It is considered his most difficult novel to understand. -
Pincher Martin
Golding quickly publishes his third novel about a shipwrecked lieutenant struggling to survive. It's basis is similar to that of Lord of the Flies -
Nobel Prize
Golding is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. The award recognizes his series of successful works including Lord of the Flies. -
Golding's Death
Golding dies of a heart attack in Cornwall, England. He leaves his wife and two children.
