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He was born in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England
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He started teaching english and philosophy in Salisberry
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They had a child named David
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He married to Ann Brookefield in 1939
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William temporarily left teaching to join the navy in the 1940
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William and his wife Ann had another child and named her Judith
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Lord of the Flies, William's first novel, was published
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Golding retired his teaching career
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The year after Golding retired from teaching, Peter Brook made a film adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel
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Golding's novel The Rites of Passage won the 1980 McConell Prize
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He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Golding died of a heart attack in Perranar Warthol, Cornwall
