A Small Biography about William Golding for my devoted readers!

British author Sir William Golding was born on the 19^th of September 1911. He is the novelist whom wrote the classic “Lord of the Flies”, and for this, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1983.

As well as being, a writer Golding had other occupations, such as: A lecturer (English and Philosophy), actor, sailor and a musician. In his early life, he went to a school, which his father was a schoolmaster, Marlborough Grammar School. As a child Golding was quite frustrated, and according to Biography.com Golding described, himself as a brat and even went so far as to say “I enjoyed hurting people”. Which then, might have given him some inspiration to how, “Lord of the Flies” turned out.

At an age of 23 years old, Golding published his first book, a book about poetry entitled “Poems”. However, in later years Golding felt some regret that they had been published, and according to william-golding.co.uk, Golding supposedly bought a second-hand copy of them so he could tear them apart.

Despite being very fond of teaching, Golding, quit the job and joined the royal navy. During his six-years on a boat, he started to develop a liking to the boat and the seas. In WWII, Lieutenant Golding, were put in charge of the rocket-launching craft, under the sinking of the Bismarck. This experience made him realize what men a capable of, and proved to be fruitful material for his fiction. After the war had ended in 1945, Golding went back to his life of teaching and writing.

During the last few years of his life, Golding quietly spent them living with his wife, Ann Brookfield, at their house in Cornwell. After his life ended of a heart attack on June 19, 1993, Golding had published 18 books.