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william was born in cornwall england. His mom was a active suffragist and his father awas a schoolmaster.
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william unsuccesfully tries to write his first novel. frustrateed he starts bullying others.
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after college Golding begins working as a english and philosophy teacher at Bishop wordsworths school in salisbury.
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Golding temporarily abandons teaching to be in the royal navy.
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wwII ends and william golding returns to his teaching career.
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a year after he retires from teaching one of his novels was adapted into a movie.
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awarded a nobel prize for literature.
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William Golding was knighted by queen Elisabeth II.
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Golding dies of heart attack in cornwall england.