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William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall, England, in 1911.
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Golding began attending Brasenose College at Oxford in 1930
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In 1935, he graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a diploma in education.
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Golding worked as a writer, actor, and producer with a small theater in an unfashionable part of London
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In 1939, Golding began teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury at Bishop Wordsworth's School
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He married Ann Brookfield in 1939 and had two children
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Golding spent five years in the navy, from 1940 to 1945
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After 21 rejections, William Golding publisjed his first novel, Lord of the Flies.
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In 1961, he left Bishop Wordsworth's School to write full time.
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In 1963, the year after Golding retired from teaching, Peter Brook made a film adaptation of Lord of the Flies.
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He died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England.
