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He was born.
William Golding was born September 19, 1911, in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England. -
He published his first book.
In 1934, a year before he graduated, William published his first work, a book of poetry aptly entitled Poems. The collection was largely overlooked by critics. -
He began teaching.
He started teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury. -
He joined the Royal Navy.
He temporarily left teaching to join the Royal Navy. -
He published his first novel.
He published his first novel, Lord of the Flies. -
He published another novel.
He got another novel published with the name of ‘The Inheritors’. This was one of Golding’s most famous novels from his literary career. It was based on the violent and deceptive nature of human beings. -
He published 'Pincher Martin'
‘Pincher Martin’ came out and it was a work of fiction that drew its inspiration from Golding’s experience with the army, war, survival and brutality, like ‘Lord of the Flies’. The protagonist of the novel is shown to be struggling hard to survive. -
Pincher Martin was added on to.
The extension of his previous novel ‘Pincher Martin’ came out and it was called ‘Free Fall’. The main character of the novel is an artist who is narrating the whole story and struggling with the conflict between rationality and faith. -
The Spire was published.
Golding got ‘The Spire’ published, a fiction that deals with the concept of faith. The novel revolves around the whimsical thought of building an immense spire at the top of a cathedral by the dean of the cathedral. -
The Pyramid was published.
‘The Pyramid’ was published. It is a novel based on music and the English society shown through a narrow point of view of an imaginary village in England named as Stilbourne. His next book was called ‘The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels’. -
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. -
He died.
Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall. After Golding died, his completed manuscript for The Double Tongue was published posthumously.
