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William Golding was born on September 9th, 1911 in Newquay, Cornwall, England. -
William went to Brasenose College in Oxford and he graduated in 1935. He taught at Bishops Woodsworth School. -
William became married to Ann Brookfield who was an analytical chemist. -
William joined the Royal Navy in 1940 and worked on a destroyer that briefly participated in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. -
William and his wife Ann had their first child, David Golding. He was born in September 1940. -
Judy was William and Ann's second child and was born in July 1945 -
One of Williams best selling and most influential books, Lord of The Flies was rejected a total of 21 times before being accepted to be published. -
William's first published book, Lord of the Flies was published and became loved in Britain and also became loved in America after. -
William Golding won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his parables on the human condition. -
He died on June 19, 1993, at the age of 81 of heart failure.