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William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall England in 1911
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William began attending Brasenose College at Oxford.
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William graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of arts in English and a diploma in education.
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William 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.
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William hat same year, he married Ann Brook field, with whom he had two children. That same year, he married Ann Brook field, with whom he had two children.
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William spent five years in the navy. Writing about his wartime experiences later he asserted that man produces evil as a bee produces honey and lord of the flies.
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He published three collections of essays which are often comic and expand upon or illuminate his novels. Golding was granted membership in the Royal Society of Literature in 1955.
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Golding gives a more subtle treatment to the theme concerning speech's role in civilization. He repeatedly represents verbal communication as the sole property of civilization while savagery is non-verbal, or silent.
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William Golding died in Cornwall in 1993.