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when he was 12 he tried to write his first unsucessful novel.
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in 1954 he published his first novel lord of the flies
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He temporarily left teaching in 1940 to join the royal navy.
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1935 golding took a postion in english and phiosiphyat bishops wordsworth, his excperience teaching unruly young boys led to him writing lord of the flies.
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in 1954 after 21 rejections he began his published and most eclaimed novel.
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like his teachings his exsperience with war would prove to be a fruitful material for his novel.
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riddled with symbolism the novel of these adolesent boys was the begining of his future work.
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he continued examin mans internal stuggle between good and bad
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he was awarded awarded the nobel prize for literature, in 1983
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in 1990 a new film version of the novel lord of the flies brought attention to new readers.
