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Born in Saint Columb Minor,Cornwall,England
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William want to Marlborough Grammer school at 12 years old,he attempted ,unsuccessfully, to write a novel
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his father hoped he would become a scientest ,but he chose to study English
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he saw what people was capable of doing
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He fought battleships at the sinking of the Bismarck ,and also fended off submarines and planes
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The novel told the gripping story of a group of adolescent boys stranded on a deserted island after a plane wreck. Lord of the Flies explored the savage side of human nature as the boys, let loose from the constraints of society, brutally turned against one another in the face of an imagined enemy.
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Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall.While Golding was mainly a novelist, his works also include poetry, plays, essays and short stories.
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The mounting tensions on the ancient, sinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks.
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after he died he was acknowledge for his work
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while Golding was mainly a novelist his body of work also includes poetry