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William Golding had 5 members (including himself) in his original family, which were his father, Alec Golding, his mother, Mildred Mary Agatha Golding, and his brother, Joseph Golding. He had his own family too, his wife, Ann Brookfield, his son David Golding, and his daughter Judith Golding.
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William Golding was born on September 19th, 1911. He lived with his Grandparents, in a house called Karenza in Newquay, Cornwall. -
William Golding wanted to write because he liked the realistic counterpoints of adventure stories, and his desire for world war, and his observations as a school teacher. -
William Golding went to school when he was 10 years old. During his childhood, he was really interested in writing and reading. Golding took English, Music, Philosophy, and Drama at Oxford University. He graduated in 1934 and got a teaching job in 1935.
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William Golding went to Oxford University and studied English; he also went there for his diploma in education and published a volume of his poetry. -
Before Golding started his writing career, he got a degree in teaching. William Golding was a schoolteacher during World War I, but then he created a novel called Lord of the Flies, which made him a lot of money, and that was enough to make him retire and start writing full-time.
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William Golding wrote a ton of books, some of which were called Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors, The Spire, Rites of Passage, Pitcher Martin, Darkness Visible, Free Fall, Fire Down Below, The Pyramid, and The Scorpion. -
William Golding was a teacher in his working days, then he decided to write a book called Lord of the Flies, which became his novel, and his struggles turned into retire from his job and become a full-time writer. -
William Golding won some major awards when he was a writer, his most famous one being Lord of the Flies. He won the Booker Prize in 1980, the Nobel Prize in literature in 1983, the James Tait Black Memorial prize in 1979, and was knighted by the Queen in 1988. -
Unfortunately, William Golding died on June 19th, 1993, in Perranaworthal, United Kingdom. He died from a heart attack at 81 years of age.