He was awarded the title ‘sir’ by the queen in 1988

He was rejected 21 times before publishing his first book, Lord of

He published his first novel, Lord of the flies in
the Flies
He was also an actor and a musicianMost of this stories are set in villages and
He went toislands
world war 2Other than being a novelist, his body of work

During the war, he fought in battle ships and he has many

He studied at
also includes poetry, plays, essays and short
Oxford

He married his wife in 1939 Won nobel prize in 1945

Lord of the flies was taken from his experience

His parents described stories

William Golding
Taught English &
him as funny, but a Philosophy
complicated and before the war
deeply self loathing
man He wrote stories

ship experiences throughout his life.

In his early life, he such as Freefall,
tried to The pyramid,
unsuccessfully write The Double
a novel, but he wrote Tongue &
many
His dadafter
wasthe
a war Pincher Martin
Many would
during the war

schoolmaster, and his

mom was a suffragist. describe him
as a brat in
He joined the royal navy in 1940He was awarded the golden book award his younger
1954

Some speculate that he was diagnosed with post traumatic years

stress
His children are
called David &
Golding developed a Lifelong Romance with sailing and Judith