William golding cause of death

William golding famous works

Golding was born in St. After being educated at Marlborough Grammar School where his father was a teacher, he studied the sciences for two years at Brasenose College, Oxford until abandoning science in favor of English language and literature, particularly that of the Anglo-Saxon period. After graduating Oxford in he worked in a London settlement house and devoted his spare time to writing and acting in "very, very far-off-Broadway theater.

At the onset of World War II he joined the Royal Navy at the age of 29 and was involved in several major conflicts including the sinking of the German battleship Bismark and, during the invasion of France in , commanded a rocket-launching craft. At the close of the war he resumed teaching in Salisbury until In the post-war period following his return to civilian life, the focus of his writing turned to mimic the current popular style.

However, after three such books were rejected for publication, he decided simply to write for himself, for pleasure, rather than with an intent to please the public. Thus in , surprisingly, the release of Lord of the Flies was met with great success in Britain. However, his true rise to popularity came in when the first editions were published in the United States.

Quickly becoming a campus favorite, rivaling even J. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies soon earned Golding enough money to retire from teaching in to write full-time. However, with the presentation of each novel after Lord of the Flies , his works met with increasing controversy among British and American audiences alike.

As he continued with his plan of "writing for himself," each new literary piece generated misunderstanding and evoked greater and greater confusion amongst his readers. Described as an "allegorist," his consistent theme throughout his later, unsuccessful works seemed to be the same as in Lord of the Flies : man's capacity for evil and his ultimate isolation and loneliness.

Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in and was knighted in Until his death on June 19, in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, he resided in Wiltshire, England with his wife who bore him two children.