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Birth
William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall England -
First book published
His first book, Poems, was published -
First novel
He wrote his first novel, Lord of the Flies while teaching in school -
Many novels followed
He wrote The Inheritors -
Novel
He wrote a novel, named Pincher Martin -
Novel
And he even wrote The Brass Butterfly -
Novel
He wrote Free Fall -
Nobel Prize
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today." -
Knighted
He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II -
Death
William Golding died in June 1993 and is buried in Holy Trinity churchyard in Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, in England