William Golding Life

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    His Life

  • Started Teaching English

  • Left teaching to join the Royal Navy

  • Published His First Novel

    The novel was The Lord of The Flies and was his biggest known novel. It was rejected 21 times before it was approved.
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    In 1963, the year after Golding retired from teaching, Peter Brook made a film adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel.
  • Won the Nobel Peice Prize for Literature

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