Sir William Gerald Golding was an English poet, novelist and a playwright. He went to Oxford to study natural science in order to become a scientist but 2 years after studying science he developed a love for literature and writing and changed his subjects to philosophy and literature. He got his first collection of poems published before he graduated but it did not gather much critical attention. He started teaching English at a school after graduating but abandoned the job to join Royal Navy to serve in the World War II. After his stint in the army for around 5 years, he came back to teaching and got his first novel ‘Lord of the Flies’ published after facing 21 initial rejections from the publishing houses. He wrote many novels after this but ‘Lord of the Flies’ proved to be the biggest success in his literary career. His writing mostly depicted his experiences with the army, war, brutality of the human nature and a will to survive. He won a Nobel Prize and was knighted by the Queen of England.