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Born on September 11, 1911, in Cornwall, England.
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Started teaching English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury.
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Golding temporarily quit fro school and decided to serve the Royal Navy in World War II. Being there for 6 years, Golding saw the extremes a man can go to. This further inspired his crafting of Lord of the Flies.
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'Lord of the Flies' was published finally after 21 rejections. This novel would go on to become his first and the most acclaimed novel of his. The novel would become a legacy with millions of its copies being sold and movies made upon it.
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Golding won the Booker McConnell prize for another one of his famous works, "Rites of Passage."
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Golding won the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1983 for his best-known work, for the legacy of 'Lord of the Flies.'
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Golding died of a heart attack in Parranarworthal, Cornwall. After his death, his manuscript, "The Double Tongue" was published posthumously.