Monday, February 4, 2019
Name: William Gerald Golding
• Birth: September 19, 1911, Newquay, Cornwall, England
• Father: Alec Golding.
• Mother: Mildred (Korno).
• Wife / Husband: N Brookfield
Early life of William Golding:
William Golding was born in his grandmother's house at 47 Mount Wise, Newquay, Cornwall. The house was known as the word carnis for love, and he spent many childhood vacations. He grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where his father (Alec Golding) was a science master at the Marlboro Grammar School (retirement from 1905), young Golding and his elder brother Joseph attended the school.
His mother, Mildred (Kerno), kept house at 29, The Green, Marlborough, and was a publicist for women's suffrage. Golding's mother, who was Cornish and whom she regarded as "a superstitious cult", used to tell stories of old cornish fairy from childhood. In 1930, Golding went to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he studied natural science for two years before moving on to English Literature.
Golding has done his B.A. In the summer of 1934, the degree with second-class honors, and later that year, a book of his poems, Macmillan & Co., was published with the help of his Oxford friend, anthropologist Adam Bitston. He was a schoolmaster who taught English and music at Madston Grammar School in 1936 - 1940 and then used to teach philosophy and English in 1939, and then studied English in Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, Williamshire, from 1945 to 1961.
After college, Gönding worked for settlement houses and theater for some period of time. After all, he decided to follow his father's footsteps. In 1935, Golding taught English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth's school in Salisbury. The experience of teaching unknowingly young boys will later work for inspiration for his novel Lord of the flies. Although there was passion for teaching from the first day, in 1940, Golding temporarily left the profession to join the Royal Navy and fight in World War II.
Golding had increased his knowledge of Greek history and mythology, and when he returned to his post in Bishop Wordsworth School in 1945, he started moving his writing career forward. He wrote three novels, all of which were unpublished. But their frustration will not last long, when in 1954, Golding created The Lord of the Flies. The novel was rejected by twenty-one publishers before Faber and Faber accepted the book of forty-five year old schoolmaster.
Initially, during the escape from war, the story of a group of school children stranded on an island received mixed reviews and sold only modestly in its hardcover version. But when the paperback edition was published in 1959, this book became more accessible to students in this way, the novel started selling very fast. Teachers are aware of student interest, and are influenced by strong topics and symbolism of work, they start appointing Lord of the flies in their literature classes. As the reputation of the novel grew, critics reacted by seeing the reviews of scholars, which was only another adventure story earlier.
Two other novels, Free Fall (1959) and The Spy (1964), also demonstrate the belief of Golding that "Man creates evil as bee." The scene of darkness (1979) tells the story of a boy who was badly burnt in the London Blitz. second World War. His subsequent works include Rites of Passage (1980), which won Booker McConnell Award, and its sequels, close quarters (1987) and Fire Down Bottom (1989). Golding gave Knight's title in 1988.
Books:
• The Inheritors (novel) 1955
• Pincher Martin (novel) 1956
• The Brass Butterfly (play) 1958
• Free Fall (Novel) 1959
• The Spire (novel) 1964
• The Hot Gates (essays) 1965
• The Pyramid (novel) 1967
• The Scorpion God (three short novels) 1971
• Darkness Visible (Novel) 1979
• Rites of Passage (novel) 1980
• A Moving Target (essays and autobiographical pieces) 1982
• The Paper Men (novel) 1984
• An Egyptian Journal 1985
• Close Quarters (Novel) 1987
• Fire Down Below (novel) 1989