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Date of birth
William Golding was born on September 19, 1911. He was born in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England. -
William Goes to College
William began attending Brasenose College at Oxford in 1930 and had spent two years studying science. -
Gets a job teaching english
In 1935 William started teaching English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury. He then temporarily stopped teaching to join the navy in 1940. -
Becomes Writer, Actor, and Producer
From 1935 to 1939, Golding had started to work as a writer, actor, and producer with a small theater in an unfashionable part of London, he was paying his bills with a job as a social worker. He considered the theater his strongest literary influence, -
Navy
FRom 1940 through 1945 he was in the navy. He made a serious impact. He wrote about his war experience after being in the navy. -
Lord of the Flies
He had published it in 1954. It was about his perception on humanity. -
Nobel Prize
He had received thenobel prize. -
William's Death
Golding died in Cornwall in 1993. He died in the same place he was born.
