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He was born September 19, 1911. His birth took place in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England.
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Golding began attending Brasenose College at Oxford in 1930. He spent two years studying science. In his third year he switched to literature.
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He started teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury.
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Golding worked as a writer, actor, and producer with a small theater in an unfashionable part of London. he paid his bills with a job as a social worker.
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In September, a few weeks after the declaration of war, he married Ann Brookfield. There wedding was in Maidstone Registry Office.
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He and his wife moved into a cottage in the Wiltshire village of Bowerchalke. In December Golding
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He published his first novel, Lord of the Flies. Before he published it he made several changes to the text.
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He left Bishop Wordsworth's School. Shortly after he became a full time writer.
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He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He got the prize with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art, and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today".
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He died in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England. The cause of his death was cngestive heart faliure.
