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Birth
William Golding was born Seotember 19, 1911, in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England. He was raised in a 14th-cantury houseby his mother Mildred and his father Alex. -
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Williams Life
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Teaching Position
In 1935 Golding decided to follow his dads footsteps and took a position teaxhing English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury. His teaching expierence would later serve as an inspiration for his novel Lord of the Flies. In 1940 Golding abandoned the profession and joined the Royal Navey to fight in World War II -
Royal Navey
Golding spent the next six years on a boat, except a seven-month stint in New York. While in the Royal Navey Golding developed a lifelong romance with sailing and the sea. Golding fought off battleships and fended off submarines and planes. In 1945 after the world ended, Golding went back to teaching and wrighting. -
Lord of the Flies
In 1954, after being rejected 21 times his first and most aclaimmed novel, Lord of the Flies was published. In 1983 Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature at the age of 73. -
The Spire
In 1964 he wrote the Spire. A fourteenth-century Dean of Barchester Cathedral desides that God wants a 400-foot-high spire added to the top of the Cathedral. -
Death and Legacy
Golding spent the last few years of his life with his wife Ann Brookfield in Falmouth, Cornwall, where he continued to write.
on June 19, 1993, Golding died of a heart attack. Left behind were his wife and their two children.
