Sir William Gerald Golding CBE (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel Lord of the Flies, he won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was born in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England. His mother, Mildred, was a strong supporter of the British suffragette movement. His father, Alec, was a schoolteacher. Golding spent the last few years of his life quietly living with his wife, Ann Brookfield, at their house near Falmouth, Cornwall, where he continued to toil at his writing. On June 19, 1993, Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall. He was survived by his wife and their two children, David and Judith. His first job was joining the Royal Navy but after the war there was no use so he decided to follow the footsteps of his father and starting teaching English and Philosophy. The book “Coral island” by Ballyntyne influenced him a lot while writing the LOTF. This is proven when the names Jack and Ralph were used from one book to another as well as the setting of the island.