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Williams family
Wiliams family was very supportive and was active. His mother was a member of the british suffragette movement,her name was Mildred. His father,Alec was a school teacher and an advocate of rationalism. He loved to learn and gain knowledge about the world.Wiliams father was a great influence on wiliam.Golding even moved on and went to school where his father taught at. -
Birthday
Wiliam Golding was born on September 1911, in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England.Wiliam lived next to a graveyard. -
Wiliams Education
Wiliam started college in 1913. He attended Brasenose College at Oxford. When he went to college, he spent two years in science.Then in his third year, he switched to literature. -
Wiliams Death
Wiliam Golding dies of a heart attack on June 19,1933.He died in Parranarworthal ,Cornwall. After Golding passed,his completed manuscript was published. -
Career
On January 1,1935 William started to teach english and philosophy in Salisbury.He taught at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury. -
Other careers
From 1935 to 1939,Wiliam tried out writing,acting and producing.He was trying to pay his bills by working in a small theatre as a social worker. -
Royal Navy
Wiliam left teaching in 1940 to join the Ryal Navy.After world war 2,Wiliam began to teach again. -
Writing
When Wiliam was in world war two, he experinced things that made him stronger and more creative.He experienced cruelty and barbaric actions.He then decided to write about his war experience. -
Lord of the flies
William wrote the book lord of the flies in 1954.Ever since then, the book has been known as a classic. -
Wiliams rewards
In 1955,Wiliam golding was granted membership in the Royal Society of Literature.This was follwong his wrok of "The lord of the flies." Glding greatest honor was being awarded with the 1938 Nobel prize for literature.
