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he left teaching in 1940 to join the royal navy.
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in 1954 he published his first novel
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after primary school willam went on to attend brasenose college at oxford u
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he spent the better part of the next 6 years on a boat
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british novelist
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he was raised in a 14th-century house next door to a graveyard.in 1935 he started teaching english and philospy etc