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        Golding was born in Newquay, United Kingdom. - 
  
  
        William Golding became a teacher of English and Philosophy. - 
  
  
        William Golding joined the Navy during World War 2. - 
  
  
        William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies because of unruly student when he was a teacher and his time as a combatant in World War 2 - 
  
  
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        William Golding won the Booker Prize because of his novel Rites of Passage - 
  
  
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        Golding died of congestive heart failure.