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William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall England
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His first book, Poems, was published
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He wrote his first novel, Lord of the Flies while teaching in school
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He wrote The Inheritors
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He wrote a novel, named Pincher Martin
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And he even wrote The Brass Butterfly
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He wrote Free Fall
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He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today."
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He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
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William Golding died in June 1993 and is buried in Holy Trinity churchyard in Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, in England