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William Golding was born in Saint Columba Minor, Cornwall, England. His mother, Mildred, was a strong supporter of the British suffragette movement. His father, Alec, was a schoolteacher and an ardent advocate of rationalism,
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, he graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a diploma in education.
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Golding worked as a writer, actor, and producer with a small theater in an unfashionable part of London, paying his bills with a job as a social worker. He considered the theater his strongest literary influence, citing Greek tragedians and Shakespeare, rather than other novelists, as his primary influences.
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Golding took a position teaching English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury. Golding’s experience teaching unruly young boys would later serve as inspiration for his novel Lord of the Flies.
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He temporarily left teaching. To join the royal navy
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William went on to attend Brasenose College at Oxford University. . His father hoped he would become a scientist, but William opted to study English literature instead.
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he published his first novel, Lord of the Flies. he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall. After Golding died, his completed manuscript for The Double Tongue was published posthumously.