A brief history of the author William Gerald Golding Sir William Gerald Golding parent’s were Mildred Golding and Alec Golding. The mother was a supporter of female suffrage and the father was a socialist teacher who supported scienfic raonalism. The young Golding studied at the Marlborough Grammar School where his father worked. Later he studied to be a scienst as his father wanted him to be. He also developed an interest in literature so he had then some experiences in wring Anglo-Saxon texts and poetry. For two years, he was educated natural science at Oxford and then conveyed to a program for English Literature and philosophy. He worked in various posions for a short period of me at a selement house i n small theater companies as both an actor and a writer. Golding became a schoolmaster at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy and was involved in the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck, after which he returned to Bishop Wordsworth's School, where he taught until the early 1960s. His first novel was Lord of the flies published in 1954 when he was twenty-three years old. This novel brought him a big unexpected success. Although at first rejected by twenty-one different publishing houses,. It details the adventures of British schoolboys lost on an island in the Pacific who descend into barbaric behavior. Golding continued to develop similar themes concerning the inherent violence in human nature in his next novel ‘’The inheritors’’. He worked also on writing a play entitled The Brass Butterfly in 1958 and two collections of essays, The Hot Gates (1965) and A Moving Target (1982). Golding's final works include Darkness Visible (1979) in which a boy horribly injured during the London blitz of World War II, and Rites of Passage (1980). This novel won the Booker McConnell Prize, the most prestigious award for English literature, and inspired two sequels, Close Quarters (1987) and Fire Down Below (1989). These three novels portray life aboard a ship during the Napoleonic Wars. n 1983, Golding received the Nobel Prize for literature for his novels which, according to the Nobel committee. And later in 1988 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II before his death in 1993 in Perranarworthal, Cornwall. But at the time of his death he was working on an unfinished manuscript entitled "The Double Tongue," which focused on the fall of Hellenic culture and the rise of Roman civilization. This work was published posthumously in 1995.