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        He was born in newquay united kingdom - 
  
  
        He graduated at Brasenose college in 1935 - 
  
  
        Golding joined the royal navy in 1940 and saw the sinking of the German ship Bismark - 
  
  
        He published lord of the flies as his first novel after the war - 
  
  
        The inheritors was his second published book set in the last days of the neanderthal man. - 
  
  
        His third published book Free fall in 1959 but it was very alike to his future book spire. - 
  
  
        The spire he published in 1964 was alike to his past book Free fall but was made years later - 
  
  
        Sadly William Golding died in June 19th 1993.