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Williams Goldings birth
William Golding was born in Newquay in the United Kingdom.His mother, Mildred, was a strong supporter of the British suffragette movement. His father, Alec, was a schoolteacher and an ardent advocate of rationalism -
education
Gold spent two years at Brasenose College in Oxford studing science in deference to his father's beliefs.In his third year he followed his true passion or literature. When Golding was a child he dreamt of being a poet. In 1935, he graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a diploma in education. -
Career and later years
From 1935 to 1939 Golding worked as a writer, actor and producer with a small theatre in a unfashionable part of London. Golding considered the theatre to be his strongest literary influence. In 1939 Golding began teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury at Bishop Wordsworth's School. -
Time during and after the 2nd world war
Golding spent five years in the British Navy (from 1940 to 1945) opened his eyes to the horrific cruel barbaric nature of man, writing about his experiences of how evil humanity is. -
Lord of the flies
Lord of the flies was published in 1954,Golding combined that perception of humanity with his years of experience with schoolboys. Although not the first novel he wrote, Lord of the Flies was the first to be published after having been rejected by 21 publishers.