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William Golding was born in Newquay, Cornwall, UK.
As a child, Golding attended Marlborough Grammar School, run by his father. William enjoyed bullying his peers and would later describe his young self as somone who "enjoyed hurting people image:visitcornwall.com -
Golding's first book, poems, was published.
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William Golding graduated from Brasenose College at Oxford, with a degree in English. He takes a job teaching English at Bishop Wordsworth's school.
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After graduating, Golding started working as a teacher of English at Bishop Wordsworth's school in Salisbury, England. He continued to teach English until 1963, when he became a full-time writer.
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Golding married Ann Brookfield, a chemist. The couple would later have two children.
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During the war, Golding enlisted in the navy and was eventually put in command of a rocket launching craft. Golding later stated “I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.”
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William Golding's most famous work, Lord of the Flies is Published
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William Golding writes his favorite of his novels, the inheritors.
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Golding was awarded the Booker Prize for his novel Rights of Passage, which he turned into a series.
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William Golding receives 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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William Golding was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the summer of 1988. After knighting him, the queen asked Golding if he was still writing. Whenhe anwered that he was, she replied with the words "Oh good."
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William Golding dies at the age of 81.
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