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Birth
William Golding is born on september 19, in Saint Columb Minor in Cornwall England. His father is a school teacher and his mother is a protester for womens rights -
Early life
William spends much of his young life being influenced by his parents and their ideals such as not being religious and instead looking to science for his answer. He would even attend the same school where his father taught. -
Oxford
William Golding is starting to attend Brasenose college at Oxford. He will spend a total of five years studying here spending the first two due to the influence of his father studying science. He soon begins to make his own path and spends the last three years there studying english. During his stay there some of the poems he wrote went on to be published by Macmillians Contemporary poets series. -
Life after college
Golding immediately after college went on to write, act, and produce many plays in a small theatre in london. In his later years would recall this and say he found much of his inspiration from old poets and playwrites such as william shakspear. -
School teacher
William Golding soon found himself teaching english and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth's school and in this same year went on to marry Anne brook with whom he had several children. -
Navy
World War two has begun and William Golding will spend the next five years between 1940-1945 in the british navy. This span of his life would mark a major point for Golding as he frequently recalls on his experiance in his writing. -
Lord of The Flies
Ten years after the end of world war 2 and William Golding cobmines his work as a school teacher and the idea of the world he picked up from the war to create his first novel Lord of The Flies. -
Sea trilogy
William writes what many would say to be his greatiest work in literature Rites of Passage the first book in the highly regarded sea trilogy. -
Death
William Golding dies June 19, 1993 the author of more than a dozen highly regarded novels and poems.
