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He was born in Newquay (a town in Cornwall, England) in his grandmothers house at 47 Mountwise.
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William Golding began attending Brasenose College at Oxford and studied English Literature.
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William Golding released his first book of poems, simply called "Poems."
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William Golding married Ann Brookfield, an analytical chemist.
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William Golding joined the Royal Navy and was sent to work at a weapons research establishment for roughly one year.
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William Golding became a high school teacher for English and philosophy, and also wrote books is almost all of his free time
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Faber publishing company published William Golding's first book, Lord of the Flies. This was only published after many of his works had been rejected by many other publishing companies.
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*Lord of the Flies (novel) 1954
The Inheritors (novel) 1955
*Pincher Martin (novel) 1956
The Brass Butterfly (play) 1958
Free Fall (novel) 1959
*The Spire (novel) 1964
The Hot Gates (essays) 1965
The Pyramid (novel) 1967
The Scorpion God (three short novels) 1971
Darkness Visible (novel) 1979
*Rites of Passage (novel) 1980
A Moving Target (essays and autobiographical pieces) 1982
*The Paper Men (novel) 1984
An Egyptian Journal 1985
Close Quarters (novel) 1987
Fire Down Below (novel) 1989 -
William Golding got his first black and white large-scale film adaptation of Lord of the Flies.
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He won the “Booker Prize” for his book "Rites of Passage."
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William Golding won the Nobel Prize in literature. When awarded the prize the foundation cited: “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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William Golding was knighted in 1988.
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Second large-scale film adaptation of Lord of the Flies, released 10 years after the first
