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        William Golding was born on September 19, 1911, in Cornwall England. his parents were Alex and Mildred Golding. - 
  
  
        William Golding went to high school at Marlborough Royal Free Grammar School he went in 1926 - 
  
  
        William Golding went to Brasenose College and graduated in 1937 - 
  
  
        Golding's book lord of the Flies is one of the most popular books in the world and was published on September 17th 1954. - 
  
  
        William's father died in 1958 at the age of 82 he lived longer than his son - 
  
  
        Free Fall was a book about a talented painter but a directionless and unhappy man is a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II. Recently some inmates escaped from his camp. and was published in 1959 - 
  
  
        the spire was a book about the will power of a man and was published in 1964 - 
  
  
        william golding won the coveted Booker Prize in 1980 just 3 years before he won the noble prize. - 
  
  
        William Golding won the Literacy Noble Prize in December of 1981. - 
  
  
        William Golding died on June 19th, 1993, at the age of 81 in the town of Perranarworthal, United Kingdom