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William was born in cornwall england in 1911.
his mother was a strong supporter of the british suffragette movement. His father was a schoolteacher and a ardent advocate for rationalism. and Williams father held tremendous influence over him until he left for college. -
Golding attended Brasenose college at oxford in 1930 and spent two years studying science.
In his third year though he switched to the literature program. Golding dreamed of writing poetry and he graduated from oxford with a bachelors of arts in english and a diploma in education in 1935. -
Being in the royal navy for five years helped his writing since it exposed him to the evils of the world. He tended to write about the such things he saw during the war and let it influence his writing heavily. His most popular novel the lord of the flies was rejected 21 times by publishers before finally being published in 1945 The lord of the flies illustrated the failures of the rationalism espoused by his father. The novel was about a group of boys who are trapped on an island. -
From 1935 to 1939 golding worked as a writer, actor and producer with a small theater in a unfashionable part of london. he paid his bills working as a social worker and he considered theater as his greatest literary influence. in 1939 golding began teaching english at bishop Wordsworth's school. That same year he married ann brookefield and had two children with her, He also spent 5 years in the royal navy during world war 2 and in 1961 left the school to write full time and he dies in 1993.