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He was born on September 19th, 1911 to Alec Golding and Mildred Golding in Newquay Cornwall England. -
William Golding went to college for natural sciences midway in this major after two years William Golding switches to an English major.
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William Golding writes and publishes his very first book with the help of his Oxford anthroposophist friend Adam Bittleston. -
After going to college William Golding became a teacher first at Michael Hall School a Steiner-Waldorf that at the time was in Streetham South London staying there for two years then William Goldburg had two more jobs as an English teacher before joining the Navy.
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In 1939 William Golding married Ann Brookfield. -
Before William went off to war he had a son in September 1940. -
William Golding stopped teaching for a time to serve in the military as a Navy sailor and returned to teaching after the war in 1945. -
In 1945 five years after his first child William Golding had his second child a daughter named Judy. -
On September 17th, 1954 William Golding released one of his most well-known books ever called the Lord of the Flies. -
On June 19th, 1993 William Golding passed away due to congestive heart failure leaving behind one draft of an unpublished book called The Double Tongue.