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William Golding met Ann Brookfield in 1939. Ann was an analytical chemist, and Golding was a school teacher. Both were engaged to other people when they met, but they fell in love at first sight.

Just five months later they married, and their son David was born in 1940.

Author biography william golding women

Later that year, Golding joined the Navy to fight in the Second World War, and this was the longest separation they ever faced in their 53-year marriage. Their daughter, Judy, was born in 1945.

Ann was instrumental in the development of Golding’s writing career.

He aspired to be a writer, and indeed, in 1934, his first (and only) volume of poetry was published. However, he had been unsuccessful with subsequent manuscripts; all of which had been rejected.

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Ann encouraged Golding to write Lord of the Flies in 1953. Golding remembered the night he came up with the idea:

‘I sat on one side of the fireplace and my wife on the other. We had just put the c