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William Golding was born on September 19, 1911, in Newquay, Cornwall, England, at his grandparents' house, named Karenza, which means "Love" in Cornish. -
William grew up next to a graveyard, attending a school run by his father, and developed an early interest in writing.
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William Golding was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford University, where he initially studied Natural Sciences before switching to English Literature to earn his degree in 1934. After university, he obtained a Diploma in Education and then worked as a schoolmaster at Bishop Wordsworth's School before joining the Royal Navy in 1940.
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William Golding's first published book was the poetry collection Poems, released in 1935. His famous first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954, after several rejections from publishers.
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All of the jobs that William Golding had were author, teacher, novelist, poet, playwright, and screenwriter
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William Golding had a wife, and her name was Ann Brookfield, and two kids, David and Judith
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William Golding served in the Royal Navy during World War II from 1940 to 1945
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William Golding got the Booker Prize in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983
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William Golding also had other works that were pretty major. He wrote "The Inheritors", Pitcher marthin, and 'The Spire"
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William Golding died in Cornwall, England. He died at the age of 81.