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William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall, England by his mother, Mildred was a supporter of the British suffrage movement, and father, Alec was a teacher and advocate of rationalism -
William went to Brasenose College at Oxford for two years studying science in 1930. In his third year, he switched to literature because his dream was poetry. At Oxford, a couple of his poems were published in Macmillan's contemporary poets series. He graduated in 1935 he graduated with a Bachelor of arts in English and a diploma in English.
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William worked as an actor, writer, and producer in a small theater in an old-fashioned part of London, he got through with paying his bills by working as a social worker.
In 1939, he began teaching Philosophy and English at Bishop Wordsworth's school in Salisbury. He also got married to a woman named Ann Brookfield and had two children. He stayed in the teaching position until 1961 with the exception of his five years in the Royal Navy. -
The impact of his five years of being in the Navy was that he found out about the cruelty of mankind, which he later wrote about in his projects.
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William Golding died in his hometown, Cornwall in 1993, But not without leaving his mark on the world