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the day william golding was born -
attended marlborough grammar school then brasenose college at oxford university where he started studying natural sciences but switched to english literature
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during the events of world war 2 william golding actually served as a soldier in the british royal navy
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William Golding originally was engaged to a woman named Molly Evans from Marlborough but he broke it off and eventually married Anne Brookfield in 1939 who stayed with him till his death -
In September of 1940 William Golding and Anne Brookfield had their first child a little boy named david -
William Golding wrote the book in 1951 to 1952 and eventually got it published in 1954 after countless rejections from publishers -
in the summer of 1967 william golding had a traumatic boating incident where his boat sank, leading him into a personal chrisis of drinking and depression -
in the month of october 1983 william golding won a nobel peace prize for literature due to capturing the perspciuity of realistic narrative art -
in 1980 william golding started writing one of his final book series to the ends of the earth it consisted of rites of passage in 1980 close quarters in 1987 and fire down below in 1989 it does not give a date other than the year -
on this day in the summer of 1993 william golding sadly passed away due to congestive heart failure although his wife Anne Brookfield stayed with him till the end