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His family
William was born on September 19th, 1911. His father was named Alec, his mother's name was Mildred and he had an older brother named Joseph. William had married Ann Brookefield in 1939 while in the navy and had two children, David and Judith. -
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The schools in his life.
William received his early education at the school his father ran, Marlborough Grammar School. In 1930 he attended Brasenose College at Oxford University, and he graduated in 1935. -
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His first Job of Teaching
After college, he worked in a theatre. Then he took on English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury. Golding’s experience teaching unruly young boys would later serve as inspiration for his novel Lord of the Flies. -
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Navy and War
Golding spent the better part of the next six years on a boat, except for a seven-month stint in New York, where he assisted Lord Cherwell at the Naval Research Establishment. During World War II, he fought battleships at the sinking of the Bismarck, and also fended off submarines and planes. In 1945, after World War II had ended, Golding went back to teaching and writing. -
lord of the flies
He wrote the book Lord Of The Flies in 1954. And many say this was the best book he wrote and a classic. -
Rites Of Passage
Rites Of Passage was written in 1980 and is one of the best books he wrote. -
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After Retirement
2 decades after retiring, at the age of 73, Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1988 he was knighted by England’s Queen Elizabeth II. Golding spent the last few years of his life quietly living with his wife, at their house near Falmouth, Cornwall, where he continued to toil at his writing. On June 19, 1993, Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall. After his death, a book he had been working on called The Double Tongue was published.