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William Golding was born September 19, 1911, in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England.
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The author of Lord of the Flies.
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Golding graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a diploma in education and took a position teaching English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury.
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From 1935 to 1939, Golding worked as a writer, actor, and producer with a small theater in an unfashionable part of London.
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Golding married Ann Brookfield, an analytic chemist, on 30 September 1939. They had two children, Judith and David.
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In 1940 Golding temporarily abandoned the profession to join the Royal Navy and fight in World War II.
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Although not the first novel he wrote, Lord of the Flies was the first to be published after having been rejected by 21 publishers in 1954.
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At the age of 73, Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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In 1988, he was knighted by England’s Queen Elizabeth II.
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In September 1993, only a few months after his sudden death, the First International William Golding Conference was held in France, where Golding's presence had been promised and eagerly anticipated.
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On June 19, 1993, Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall. After Golding passed away, his completed manuscript for The Double Tongue was published posthumously.
