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author:William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall, England, in 1911 important because if he was never born we wouldnt have the books today
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In 1935, he graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a diploma in education.
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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, paying his bills with a job as a social worker
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In Lord of the Flies, which was published in 1954, Golding combined that perception of humanity with his years of experience with schoolboys
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The Inheritors (1955), a depiction of how the violent, deceitful Homo sapiens achieved victory over the gentler Neanderthals. Although this novel is the one readers have the most difficulty understanding, it remained Golding's favorite throughout his life.
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Golding's next novel, Darkness Visible, appeared in 1979 one of his less famous novels but still a very good book
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Golding's greatest honor was being awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. he got the noble prize for the books he wrote and the knowledge he had
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Golding died in Cornwall in 1993.
