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William was born on September 19, 1911. He was born in Newquay, United Kingdom. To his mother Mildred Golding and his father Alec Golding. -
Brasenose College, Oxford, Golding graduated in 1935 -
He married Ann Brookfield, on 30 September 1939. -
He had to kids David born September 1940 and Judith born July 1945 -
For several years he worked as a teacher before enlisting in the British Navy in 1940. -
Willam Published Lord of the flies on September 17, 1954 -
He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980. -
Golding won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Darkness Visible in 1979. -
In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. -
He died June 19, 1993