William Golding Timeline

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  • William Golding Born

    William Golding Born
    William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall, England, in 1911.

  • Education

    Education
    Golding began attending Brasenose College at Oxford in 1930 and spent two years studying science, in deference to his father's beliefs. In his third year, however, he switched to the literature program, following his true interests.

  • English Teacher

    English Teacher
    William Golding started teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury in 1935.
  • Period: to

    Career

    Golding worked as a writer, actor, and producer with a small theater in an unfashionable part of London, paying his bills with a job as a social worker.

  • Royal Navy

    Royal Navy
    He temporarily left teaching in 1940 to join the Royal Navy.

  • World War II

    World War II
    In 1945, after World War II had ended, Golding went back to teaching and writing.

  • Lord of the FIies

    Lord of the FIies
    In 1954 he published his first novel, Lord of the Flies.

  • Nobel Prize

    Nobel Prize
    In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

  • William Golding Died

    William Golding Died
    Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall.