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William Golding was born on 19th September, 1911, at his grandparents' house in Newquay, Cornwall. The house, called Karenza – Cornish for 'love' -
A schoolmaster father and a suffragette mother raised William Golding. He attended Marlborough Grammar School, where his father taught, and later went on to Oxford University, initially studying science before switching to English literature. -
William Golding graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1935 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a teaching diploma, following an initial two-year study in science. While it does not say a specific day he graduated, resources do say he graduated from college in 1935. -
William Golding's first published book was the poetry collection Poems, released in 1934. He later began writing his first major novel, Lord of the Flies, after World War II, which was finally published in 1954 after being rejected by many publishers. The success of Lord of the Flies allowed Golding to leave his teaching post to write full-time. -
William Golding was a very successful author, known for his first book, Lord of the Flies, as well as winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983 and the Booker Prize in 1980. His books explore difficult ideas, like how people can be violent even when they seem civilized. Millions of people around the world still read his books, which have also been made into movies and a TV show. -
After the success of Lord of the Flies, William Golding published several more novels, including Pincher Martin (1956), Free Fall (1959), and The Paper Men (1984), and won the 1980 Booker Prize for Rites of Passage (1980) -
William Golding died of a heart attack on June 19, 1993, at his home in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England. He was 81 years old.