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William Golding was born September 19, 1911, in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England
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In 1930 Golding went to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he read Natural Sciences for two years before transferring to English Literature.
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Golding went to Brasenose College, Oxford
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Golding took his B.A. degree with Second Class Honours in the summer of 1934, and later that year a book of his Poems was published by Macmillan & Co, with the help of his Oxford friend, the anthroposophist Adam Bittleston
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Golding took his B.A. degree with Second Class Honours in the summer
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He was a schoolmaster teaching English & music at Maidstone Grammar School 1938
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Golding married Ann Brookfield
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Golding married Ann Brookfield married an analytical chemist
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Joined the Royal navy
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Golding joined the Royal Navy
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They had a child named David
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They had Judith
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Published Lord of the Flies
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After moving in 1958 from Salisbury to nearby Bowerchalke
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writer-in-residence at Hollins College, near Roanoke, Virginia.
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Won James Tait Black Memorial Prize
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Nobel prize for Literature
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Golding and his wife moved to Tullimaar House at Perranarworthal, near Truro, Cornwall.
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heart failure