William Golding

  • William Golding was born on september 19, 1911. He died on June 19, 1993 in Perranarworthal

  • William Golding started teaching english and philosophy in saliaburg. He left teaching temporarily to join the royal navy.

  • William Golding left teaching to join the navy.While in the royal navy Golding developed a lifelong romance with sailing and the sea. During world war ll he fought battleships at the sinking of the Bismarck

  • He published his first novel Lord of the Flies. Williamd Golding wrote Lord of the Flies because of World War 2. Since he was part of world war 2 the violence and terror in the war gave him a huge influence about human life.

  • He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. "For his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today."