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Wiliam was born september 19 1911 -
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William golding lived in his house with his mother father and brother named joseph and both attended the same school at which there father taught.
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In 1930, Golding went to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he read natural sciences for two years before transferring to English for his final two years.[10] His original tutor was the chemist Thomas Taylor.
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In 1935, Golding took a job teaching English at Michael Hall School, a Steiner-Waldorf school then in Streatham, South London, staying there for two years
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Golding was engaged to Molly Evans, a woman from Marlborough, who was well liked by both of his parents. However, he broke off the engagement and married Ann Brookfield, an analytical chemist, on 30 September 1939. They had two children: David (born September 1940) and Judith (born July 1945).
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Golding joined the Royal Navy in 1940. He served on a destroyer which was briefly involved in the pursuit and sinking of the German battleship Bismarck. Golding participated in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, commanding a landing craft that fired salvoes of rockets onto the beaches. He was also in action at Walcheren in October and November 1944, during which time 10 out of 27 assault craft that went into the attack were sunk. Golding rose to the rank of lieutenant.
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After moving in 1958 from Salisbury to nearby Bowerchalke, Golding won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Darkness Visible in 1979, and the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980. Having been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1966 New Year Honours,Golding was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1988 Birthday Honours.
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In 1983, Golding 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". It was, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "an unexpected and even contentious choice". -
Sir William Golding became a knight -
In 1985, Golding and his wife moved to a house called Tullimaar in Perranarworthal, near Truro, Cornwall. He died of heart failure eight years later on 19 June 1993, at age 81.