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William Golding was born on September 9th of 1911
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He was raised in a 14th-century house next door to a graveyard. -
Educated at Marlborough Grammar School, where his father taught, and at Brasenose College, Oxford. -
He studied natural science for two years and English for 3 years. -
He was a school teacher, novelist, and playwright poet. -
He enlisted in the British Navy and was overseas at war for six years -
After the war, he went back to teaching because he liked it. -
He published his first book lord of the Flies. -
He won the Nobel Prize for literature. -
He died at the age of 82.