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William Golding was born September 19, 1911, in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England.
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William got his early education at his fathers school, Marlborough Grammar School. When William was just 12 years old, he tried nsuccessfully, to write a novel.
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William went on to Brasenose College at Oxford University, studying english literature instead the last two of his four years instead of science like his father had wished.
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William published his first work, a book of poetry that he called "Poems"
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After college, heworked in settlement houses and the theater. After a while, he decided to be like his father. In 1935 William took a job teaching English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury.
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William was temporarily taken from his job to serve in the Royal Army of World War 2
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William spent about 6 years on a boat fighting battles, but after the war, he went back to teaching and writiing.
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After getting rejected 21 times, William published Lord of the Flies which would later be one of his biggest achievments.
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Shortly after publishing Lord of the Flies, William published The Inheritors
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Williams 3rd publishing was the Pincher Martin
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Unlike his first 3 novels, this publishing was written in 1st person narrative.
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The veteran author and teacher officially retires from teaching.
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Willam releases his 5th novel.
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Golding realeased his 6th publishing
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William Goldings 7th publishing
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One of Williams more recent novels.
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His 1980 novel Rites of Passage won the Booker Prize, a memorable British award.
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Golding's greatest honor was being awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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he received the honorary designation Commander of the British Empire (CBE) and was knighted in 1988.
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Perranarworthal, United Kingdom from Congestive heart failure
