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William Golding is born September 19, 1911, in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England.
William Golding was born to science master and a housewife in Cornwall, England. His father was 47 and his mother 29. -
Graduated from Oxford
Golding took his B.A. degree with Second Class Honours in the summer of 1934, and later that year a book of his Poems was published by Macmillan & Co, with the help of his Oxford friend, the anthroposophist Adam Bittleston. -
Started teaching English and philosophy
In 1935 he started teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury.He was a schoolmaster teaching Philosophy and English in 1939, then just English from 1945 to 1961 at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, Wiltshire. -
Married Ann Brookfield
Golding married Ann Brookfield, an analytical chemist,[9](p161) on 30 September 1939. They had two children, Judith and David.[5] -
Joined the Royal Navy.
He temporarily left teaching in 1940 to join the Royal Navy during WWII. He was briefly involved in the pursuit and sinking of the German battleship Bismarck. He also participated in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day -
Wrote Lord of the Flies
In 1954, after 21 rejections, Golding published his first and most acclaimed novel, Lord of the Flies. -
Receives Novel Prize in Literature
Golding received the Nobel Prize in literature when he was 73 years old. The book was critically acclaimed for its masterful representation of the history of human kind itself. -
Dies of Heart Attack
He spent the last few years of his life with simple living but high thinking at his small home in Cornwall. He continued to toil at his writing and finally died of a heart attack. He was 81.
