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William Golding was born on September 11, 1911, in Newquay, Cornwall, England, where he and his grandmother lived -
During his childhood, William was raised next to a cemetery he then developed a fear of cemeteries. He then started to enjoy writing at age 7 and wrote a failed attempt at a novel at 12. His father was a teacher.
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William went to Oxford College and Malbrough Grammar. He originally went for natural science, but later switched to literature and graduate in secound honers. In 1934 he earned a diploma and started teacing english at varuios schools. -
William Golding had a wife named Ann Brookfield Their marriage lasted more than 50 years. And they had two children son named David, born in 1940, and a daughter named Judith, born in 1945 -
William's career started as him being being a poet and an English teacher graduating from Oxford, then serving time in the Royal Navy during World War II, and then finally becoming a novelist. -
William served in the Royal Navy for almost 6 years during World War II in the rank of lieutenant. Serving in the Navy had a heavy impact on how he wrote with PTSD as he was serving. Once he came back, he became a full-time author. -
Lord of the Flies was published in 1954 after being rejected by several publishers. There was a slow start to the book at first, but it eventually became a major success.
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Ann Brookfield was Golding's wife, who was an analytical chemist. She was very supportive of William. Judith was their daughter; she later wrote about the difficulties of her family's life.
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He won a Nobel Prize for literature due to how much he would relate to human conditions with good and evil within. -
William Golding died at the age of 81. He died due to having heart failure.