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William was born on September 19th, 1911 in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England. His mother, Mildred, was a active suffragette who fought for women´s right to vote.
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After college Golding decided to follow in his fathers footsteps to be a teacher, in 1935 he started teaching at ´Bishop Wordworth´s School.´ He ended teaching unruly young boys later inspiring him to write his novel.
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William Golding married Ann Brookfield in 1939 and later had two children, David (b. 1940) and Judith (b. 1945)
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Golding served 5 years on a battleship for WW2. Then he realized what people were capable, saying ¨men produces evil as a bee produces honey
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After serving in the war Golding went back to teaching at ´Bishop Wordsworth´s School´ and picked up on writing.
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After several years of teaching at ´Bishop Wordsworth´s School´ he quit to continuing writing full time
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After 21 rejections, Golding got his first and his most famous book published. His book is full of symbolism and is still taught in classrooms across the world.
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After a year of retiring from teaching, Golding's book 'Lord of the Flies' was made into a film by Peter Brook
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In 1983, at the age of 73, William Golding won a Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel 'Lord of the Flies' proving how his book impacted the culture and how teaching changed in the classrooms
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William Golding passed away in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England. His cause of death was congestive heart failure at the age of 81