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William Golding was born on September 19, 1911, in Newquay, Cornwall, England to his parents, Mildred and Alec Golding. -
William started his education at an early age. He went to primary school at Marlborough Grammar School where his father was a schoolmaster. -
In 1930, Golding went to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he read Natural Sciences for two years before transferring to English for his final two years. -
William Golding started teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury in 1935. -
Educated at Marlborough Grammar School, where his father taught, and at Brasenose College, Oxford, Golding graduated in 1935. -
Golding was engaged to Molly Evans, a woman from Marlborough, who was well-liked by both of his parents. However, he broke off the engagement and married Ann Brookfield, an analytical chemist -
He temporarily left teaching in 1940 to join the Royal Navy. -
Lord of the Flies was written in the early 1950s and published in 1954. -
The 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the British author 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" -
William Golding passed away on June 6, 1993, in Perranarworthal, near Falmouth, Cornwall.