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Born in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England with his mother who was an active suffragette who fought for women’s right to vote his father worked as a schoolmaster.
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Brasenose College at Oxford in 1930. He studied science which was against his father's beliefs. He then switched to the literature program.
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Started teaching in Salisbury teaching English and Philosphy at Bishop Wordsworth's
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Spent the better part of the next six years on a boat, except for a seven-month stint in New York, where he assisted Lord Cherwell at the Naval Research Establishment. Were he developed a lifelong romance with sailing and the sea
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After World War II had ended, Golding went back to teaching and writing
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In 1954, after 21 rejections, Golding published his first and most acclaimed novel
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Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature
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William Golding was knighted by England’s Queen Elizabeth II in 1988
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1990 a new film version of the Lord of the Flies was released, bringing the book to the attention of a new generation of readers.
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Golding was mainly a novelist, his body of work also includes poetry, plays, essays and short stories.
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Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall