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William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall, England, in 1911 -
Golding began attending Brasenose College at Oxford in 1930 and spent two years studying science -
From 1935 to 1939, 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. -
In 1935, he graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a diploma in education.
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In 1939, Golding began teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury at Bishop Wordsworth's School. That same year, he married Ann Brookfield -
William published lord of the flies on September 17, 1954 -
He died on June 19, 1993