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William Golding was born on September 19, 1911. He was born in his maternal grandmother's house in Newquay, Cornwall. -
Willliam grew up going to school at Marlborough Royal Free Grammar School. Marlborough, was a grammar school in the town of Marlborough, in Wiltshire, England, founded in 1550. -
During World War II, in 1940, Golding served in the Royal Navy. He was a member of the crew of a destroyer that briefly followed and killed the German battleship Bismarck. -
William Golding wrote a novel called Lord of the Flies in 1954. William was a British novelist who won the Nobel Prize. The story follows a bunch of British boys' who try to control themselves when stuck on a deserted island. -
William died in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England. His cause of death was congestive heart failure at the age of 81.