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William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall, England, in 1911. His mother, Mildred, was a strong supporter of the British suffragette movement.
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Educated at Marlborough Grammar School, where his father taught, and at Brasenose College, Oxford, Golding graduated in 1935. After working in a settlement house and in small theater companies.
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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 1939, at Bishop Wordsworth 's Academy, Golding started to teach English and philosophy in Salisbury. He married Ann Brookfield the same year, with whom he had two children. He remained in the teaching role until 1961, when he left Bishop Wordsworth 's School to write full time, with the exception of five years spent in the Royal Navy during World War II.
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In 1939, at Bishop Wordsworth 's Academy, Golding started to teach English and philosophy in Salisbury. He married Ann Brookfield the same year, with whom he had two children. He remained in the teaching role until 1961, when he left Bishop Wordsworth 's School to write full time, with the exception of five years spent in the Royal Navy during World War II.
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Jun 12, 2020 — In 1954, after 21 rejections, Golding published his first and most acclaimed novel, Lord of the Flies. The novel told the gripping story of a group of adolescent boys stranded on a deserted island after a plane wreck.
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983 was awarded to William Golding "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today."
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Golding died in Cornwall in 1993.
