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He was born September 19, 1911, in Newquay, United Kingdom.
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In 1935 he started teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury.
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He temporarily left teaching in 1940 to join the Royal Navy.
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In 1954 he published his first novel, Lord of the Flies.
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William Golding wrote 'Lord of the Flies', because of World War 2.
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He pub. Free Fall in 1959.
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He won James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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He won the Book of prize in 1980.
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He pub. Moving Target in 1982.
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British novelist William Golding wrote the critically acclaimed classic Lord of the Flies, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983
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He once told an interviewer that he did not believe in the afterlife and had no desire to live with himself for a thousand years.
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He died June 19, 1993, in Tullimaar House.
