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Birth
William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall England in 1911 -
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Education
Wiliam Began attending Brasenose College at Oxford in 1930 and studied science for two years. In his third year of college, he switched to the literature program. In 1935 he graduated from college. -
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Career
William worked as a writer, actor, and producer in a small theater in London. He paid his bills working as a social worker. Considered theater his strongest literary influence. -
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Military Service
William spent five years in the Navy which made an enormous impact on his life as it exposed him to the cruelty and barbarity of which mankind is capable. William wrote about his war experiences later, he asserts that "man creates evil as a bee creates honey" -
First Novel published
Wiliam published his novel Lord of the Flies in 1954 after being rejected by 21 publishers. He used his perception of humanity with his years of experience with schoolboys. -
Second Novel
After publishing LotF William quickly wrote another book called the inheritors depicting how the deceitful homo sapiens achieved victory over the Neanderthals. This was Williams favorite throughout his life. -
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Awards
Following the publication of his best-known work, Lord of the Flies, Golding was granted membership in the Royal Society of Literature in 1955. Ten years later, he received the honorary designation Commander of the British Empire and was knighted in 1988. His 1980 novel Rites of Passage won the Booker Prize, a prestigious British award. Golding's greatest honor was being awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. -
Third Novel
William wrote another book after the Inheritors called Pincher Martin which was similar to LotF -
The Brass Butterfly
William wrote a book called The Brass Butterfly. -
Fourth Novel
William wrote another book following the pursuit of Pincher Martin called free fall which used the flashback technique like in Pincher Martin. It was a first-person unlike the other three -
Fifth Novel
William wrote another book called The Spire which was about issues of faith. It's about a Dean who decides that God wants a 400-foot spire added to the top of the Cathedral -
Sixth Novel
William wrote another book after writing the spire called the Pyramid. The book was about the english social class and the problem is music. -
Novel collection
William wrote three short novels Entitled the Scorpion God, each story is about the negative repercussions of technological advancement one of the three stories was published ear -
Tenth Novel
William wrote another novel named, Darkness Visible, in 1979. It addresses the interdependence of good and evil, exemplified in the two main characters. -
Eleventh Novel
William wrote another novel called the Papermen which was regarded by his viewers as his worst work, because it condemned literary critics -
Death
William golding died in 1993