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Born in Cornwall, England. Father was an anti-religious teacher. -
Marlbrough grammar school tried book writing at age 12 Oxford Science for two years and three years in English literature Liked Shakespeare when he was 7 bullied kids -
Taught English and Philosophy in Salisbury from 1935-1940 -
Got married to Ann Brookfield -
Five years in Royal Navy during ww2 learned how bad humans were -
Taught until 1963, wrote lord of the flies, constantly rejected (21 times) -
Lord of the Flies finally published -
Lord of the Flies movie came out. -
Died in 1993