Author Biography

William Golding
WIlliam Golding was born on september 19, 1911, in saint Columba Minor. He lived with both of his parent during his early life. His mom was fighting for women's rights and his father was a schoolmaster. His father wanted him to teach or join the army so that he could make something of himself. He a was bully and later on in his life he would say that he enjoyed to bring pain to people.

After he went to college he worked at settlement houses and theaters. Working there he had decided he wanted to follow into his dads footsteps to become like him. During his teaching years he had experienced teaching young and disobedient boys which would inspire him to write the book Lord of The Flies. Even though he had loved teaching he decided in 1940 to join the Navy.

After he was done with that job he spent some time in the army, but he was on a boat about 6 years. During this time of him fighting in the war he had fought off submarines, planes, and other ships. While being in the war he began to realize what some

of the evil that people were capable of. After 1945 the war ended and he left and went back to teaching and writing like he loved.

For his first book he had written the book Lord of The Flies, that he had sent it in to be published, but it had been rejected twenty one times. After this book was finally published it had been a huge hit. It set an immediate tone of what kind of writing he was going to be doing, and in 1983 he had received a nobel prize for his writings.

After his long life of writing, reading, teaching, and even fighting in the war he spent his later years spending time with his wife. He had much of success for writing with the fact that he had been writing about what he had learned from humanity. William believes he had learned a lot but wishes he could have spent more time learning. Wil

liams most famous book will forever be the literary masterpiece, The Lord of the Flies.