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Born in his grandmother's house at 47 mountwise, Newquay, Cornwall
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First poem was published.
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Marriage to Ann Brookfield.
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Lord of the Flies was published.
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The Inheritors was published.
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The film, Lord of the Flies, is released.
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Won the 'Booker Prize' for his novel "Rites of Passage"
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William Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Sir William Gerald Golding dies.
