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Birth
William Golding was born on September 19, 1911, in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England. -
First work
His father hoped he would become a scientist, but William opted to study English literature instead. In 1934, a year before he graduated, William published his first work, a book of poetry aptly entitled Poems. The collection was largely overlooked by critics. -
Teaching
In 1935 Golding took a position teaching English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury. Golding’s experience teaching unruly young boys would later serve as inspiration for his novel Lord of the Flies. -
His Youth
In 1939, a few weeks before the declaration of war that led to World War II, he married Ann Brookfield. In April of the following year he began work as a teacher at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury. Five months after the wedding, in September, his first child, David, was born. -
During WW2
During World War II, he fought battleships at the sinking of the Bismarck, and also fended off submarines and planes. Lieutenant Golding was even placed in command of a rocket-launching craft. -
Royal Navy
While in the Royal Navy, Golding developed a lifelong romance with sailing and the sea. During World War II, he fought battleships at the sinking of the Bismarck, and also fended off submarines and planes. Lieutenant Golding was even placed in command of a rocket-launching craft. -
Lord of the flies
After 21 rejections, Golding published his first and most acclaimed novel, Lord of the Flies. The novel told the gripping story of a group of adolescent boys stranded on a deserted island after a plane wreck. -
The Brass Butterfly
Also cultivate the theater with this work premiered in 1958, and based on his earlier story Envoy Extraordinary and literary criticism, writing for The Big man and The killer. BowerChalke , near Salisbury, he befriends James Lovelock , a well-known independent scientist, whom he supports in his theory that life on Earth behaves like a single organism, for which Golding himself suggests the Named after Gaia , the Greek goddess of the Earth. -
Novel Envoy Extraordinary
After an experience of "creative drought" from 1968 to 1970, he published his story Envoy Extraordinary again, along with two other stories in The Scorpion God (The Scorpion God) and began to write a diary in which he tells both personal experiences as his creative difficulties. -
Novel Prize
In the election announcement, the Nobel Prize jury compares Golding to Herman Melville in these terms: William Golding's novels and stories are not just grim moral teachings or dark myths about evil and forces of treachery and destruction. They are also stories full of adventure and color that can be enjoyed as such, for their joyful narrative, inventiveness and emotion. -
Legacy
Golding spent the last few years of his life quietly living with his wife, Ann Brookfield, at their house near Falmouth, Cornwall, where he continued to toil at his writing. The couple had married in 1939 and had two children, David and Judith. -
Death
Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall. After Golding died, his completed manuscript for The Double Tongue was published posthumously.