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Golding was born in Cornwall, England, 1911. His mother (Mildred) as a supporter of the British suffragette and his dad (Alec) was a school teacher.
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Golding attended Brasenose college in the year of 1930. He studied science and loved fiction. He graduated college at the year of 1935.
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Golding worked as a writer, actor, and producer with a small theater in London. Golding also was teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury at Bishop Wordsworth's School.
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Golding was a navy recruit for 5 years. He wrote story's of him being in the navy and telling the world of his brutal experience.
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One of his most famous novels is the Lord of the Flies which he published in 1954. It talks about the hardships and cruelty mankind can show.
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Golding received the honorary designation 10 years after he was granted membership in the Royal Society of Literature. Golding's greatest honor was receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.
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In 1971, Golding published the novel "the Scorpion God." It represents the explores of negative repercussions of technological progress.
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Golding died in the year of 1993 in the town of Cornwall. He died of a heart failure.