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William Golding, recipient of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Cornwall, England. His father was a schoolmaster. He was educated at Marlboro and Oxford University of England where he studied physics and English literature. He worked briefly as a writer and an actor before become a teacher. He was knighted by the English Crown in 1988.
Golding began writing at the age of seven, and he was first published at 23 with a volume of poetry entitled POEMS. His first novel and most famous work, THE LORD OF THE FLIES, was published in 1954. His works primarily deal with the theme of good and evil.
William Golding died in Wiltshire, England in 1993.
CHRONOLOGY
1911 He was born in Cornwall, England. (September 19)
1934 Poems
1939 He moved to Salisbury and began teaching English at Bishop Wordsworth's School.
1940 He joined The British Navy.
1945 He began working as a teacher in Salisbury.
1954 Lord Of The Flies
1955 Inheritors
1956 Pincher Martin, Envoy Extraordinary
1958 The Brass Butterlfy
1960 Free Fall, Miss Pulkinhorn
1961 He resigned from teaching and devoted himself to writing.
1962 The Anglo-Saxon, Break My Heart
1964 The Spire
1965 The Hot Gates
1967 The Pyramid
1971 The Scorpion God
1979 Darkness Visible
1980 Rites Of Passage
1982 A Moving Target
1983 He was awarded The Nobel Prize For Literature.
1984 The Paper Men
1985 An Egyptian Journal
1987 Close Quartes
1988 He was knighted.
1989 Fire Down Below
1993 He died in Wiltshire, England. (June 19)
1995 The Double Tongue
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