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William Golding was born in Cornwall England in 1911. He was raised in a house next to a graveyard, his father being a schoolmaster.
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In 1935 he began work in the acting field, after 4 years he stopped to teach English and philosophy in Salisbury.
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Golding temporarily left his teaching career to join the Royal Navy and fight in WWII for five years.
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It is very important to note that William Golding wrote LOTF after he spent five years in the bloodiest war ever. This impacted his writing and thinking greatly.
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William Golding died in the town he was born and raised in; Cornwall, England. His books to this day are controversial, however he did receive the Nobel Prize for literature in 1983