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William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall, England to Alec and Mildred Golding.
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Golding began attending his first years of college at Brasenose in Oxford, against his father's wishes. Shortly after two years of studying science, he chose to transition to his true calling, literature.
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Golding graduated from Oxford University after five years of study. He received both a Bachelor of the Arts in English and a diploma in education.
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Throughout this timespan, Golding lived in London and worked as a social worker. This profession was only to pay the bills, but his true calling was the arts. Partnering with a small theater nearby, he wrote plays and other works, produced, and acted.
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Golding began teaching English and Philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury. This same year, he married Ann Brookfield, the mother of his two children.
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Golding spent his five years serving the Royal Navy, which were as he recalls, some of the most impactful years of his life. The cruelty and gruesome truth of the war led to some of his later works concerning his war time events. Many of them dealt with the conflicts that exist between mankind and the nature of evil.
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"The Lord of the Flies" was the first novel of Golding's published after being turned down by 20 plus other publishers. This was one of many books that Golding wrote on the nature of humanity.
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After many years, Golding gave up his teaching career to follow his true passion of writing novels and other literary works. Many of his works at this point covered his years out war and views on evil and humanity as a whole.
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William Gerald Golding died in 1993, in Cornwall.