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William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall, England, in 1911.
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William Golding began school at Brasenose College at Oxford and spent two years studying science, then in his third year he switched to literature.
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Golding started teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury.
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After five years of teaching, Golding took a break, and left to join the Royal Navy for five years to fight in World War 2.
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He resumed to literature, and after being rejected by 21 publishers, Goulding finally published The Lord of the Flies as his first novel.
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William Goldoing left Bishop Wordworth's School to begin writing full time as an author.
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Golding won the Booker Prize, which is awarded to the author for the best original full-legnth novel written in the english language.
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His works of literature and excellence was well known by 1983, and William Golding was awarded a Novel Prize for Literature.
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Willaim Gerald Golding was knighted by Queen Elizabeth the second at Buckingham Palace in 1988.
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William Gerald Golding died of heart failure on June 19, 1993 in his hometwon of Cornwall.
