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William Golding
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Growing Up
William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall, England, in 1911. His mother, Mildred, was a strong supporter of the British suffragette movement. His father, Alec, was a schoolteacher and an ardent advocate of rationalism. -
Education
As a kid Golding was good in school had okay grades through middle and high school which gave him perpetuity to college. Golding began attending Brasenose College at Oxford in 1930 and spent two years studying science, in deference to his father's beliefs. In his third year, however, he switched to the literature program, following his true interests. -
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Career and Later Years
Along the lines from 1935 to 1939 Golding started working as a writer, actor, and producer with not to much money he worked out of a small theater in an unfashionable part of London. His way of paying bills for the theater he worked as a social worker but He considered the theater his strongest literary influence, citing Greek tragedians and Shakespeare, rather than other novelists, as his primary influences. -
The end of William Golding
Golding died in Cornwall in 1993 but before his passing he did a lot of good things for his self like the five years Golding spent in the navy (from 1940 to 1945). He made an enormous impact, exposing him to the incredible cruelty and barbarity of which humankind is capable. Another accomplishment he achieved was he made a book called Lord of the flies one of his popular books.Although not the first novel he wrote,Lord of the Flies was the first to be published after having be rejected 20 times.