Nobel william golding biography book

English writer, Nobel Prize in Literature 1983 Date of Birth: 19.09.1911 Country: Great Britain

Biography of William Golding

Early Life and Education

William Gerald Golding, an English writer and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1983, was born in the village of St.

Columb Minor in Cornwall. His father, Alec Golding, a school teacher and brilliant scholar, was a rationalist, while his mother was a feminist. Golding studied at Marlborough Grammar School and Oxford University, where he initially studied natural sciences at the request of his parents for two years.

However, Golding, who had been writing since the age of seven, eventually switched to studying English philology and published a collection of poems in 1934, a year before he received his Bachelor of Arts degree.

Nobel william golding biography book pdf

After graduating from Oxford, Golding initially worked in the social field. During this time, he wrote plays and staged them in a small London theater. In 1939, the aspiring wr