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William golding was born in Cornwall in 1911. He was born at his grandmother's house
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William Golding went to the University of Oxford. When he first started there he wanted to be a Natural Scientist but then he later changed his mind and became an English major.
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He decided to follow in his father's footsteps and become an English and philosophy at Bishops Wordsworth's School in Salisbury.
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William Golding got married to Anne Brookfield in 1939 they had their first child in 1940 and then had there second child in 1945.
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He left teaching in 1940. He then join the Royal Navy during World War II.
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William Golding write first book Lord of the Flies. He got a lot of rejections but finally he got his work published
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William Golding wrote over 30 books throughout his career. Such as Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors, Pincher Martian, The Spire, and so on.
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William Golding got rejected 21 times before finding Faber & Faber, London to publish his first book Lord of the Flies.
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William Golding won a Nobel Prize in Literature. He was also awarded the Booker Prize for a fiction.
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William Golding died on June 19 1993. He died because of congestive heart failure
