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William Golding was born September 19, 1911
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In 1935 he started teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury
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He temporarily left teaching in 1940 to join the Royal Navy
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In 1954 he published his first novel, Lord of the Flies.
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In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
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On June 19, 1993, he died in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England.