William golding

William Golding

By Daylinrobinson12

  • William Golding birth

    William Golding was born September 19, 1911, in Saint Columbia Minor Cornwall, England.

  • Early childhood

    William Golding was raised in a 14 century house next door to a graveyard. His mom Mildred is an active suffragette who fought for women’s right to vote and his dad work as schoolmaster.William Golding received his early education at the school his dad run Marlborough Grammar School. He was just 12 years old he attempted unsuccessfully to write a novel.

  • Teaching

    After college William Golding worked in settlement houses and the theater for a time. In 1935 William Golding took a position teaching english and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury. william golding teach young boys that would be a inspiration for his novel Lord of the Flies.

  • Join the Royal Navy

    in 1940 William Golding temporarily abandoned the profession to join the Royal Navy and fight in World War II.

  • World War II,

    During World War II William Golding 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.

  • After world war 2

    In 1945 after world war 2 had ended Golding went back to teaching and writing.

  • Royal Navy

    William Golding spent 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. While in the Royal Navy, Golding developed a lifelong romance with sailing and the sea.

  • Lord of the Flies

    In 1954 after 21 rejections William Golding published his first and most acclaimed novel Lord of the Flies.

  • The novel that turn to a film

    In 1963 the year after William Golding retired from teaching Peter Brook made a film adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel.

  • William Golding win a Nobel Prize for Literature

    Two decades later, at the age of 73, Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature.

  • William Golding death

    On June 19, 1993 William Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall. After Golding died, his completed manuscript for The Double Tongue was published posthumously.