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William Golding was born September 19, 1911, in Saint Columb Minor, England. His mother was an active suffragette and is father wroked as a schoolmaster.
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There is no specific date for when his first work, "Poems" was written but in 1934, a year before he graduated, he published it which was overlooked by critics.
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One day in 1940, Golding abandoned teaching to Join the Royal Navy and fight in WWII. He spent six years on a boat where he fought battleships.
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In 1954, after being rejected twenty-one times, Golding published hsi first and most known novel,, "LOrd of the flies". He recieved inspiration from his stuents when he was teaching back in 1935.
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On June 19, 1993, William Glding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall. After he passed away, his manuscript, "The double Judith" was published.
