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He was raised in a 14th-century house next door to a graveyard.
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born in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England.
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he started teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury.
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He temporarily left teaching in 1940 to join the Royal Navy.
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he published his first novel, Lord of the Flies.
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after 21 rejections, Golding published his first and most acclaimed novel, Lord of the Flies.
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the year after Golding retired from teaching, Peter Brook made a film adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel.
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he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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a new film version of the Lord of the Flies was released, bringing the book to the attention of a new generation of readers.
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Golding died of a heart attack in Perranarworthal, Cornwall.