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William Wordsworth was born in 1911 in Cornwall, England.
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Wordsworth began his education in 1916 at Marlborough Grammar School, the school that his father ran. His first unsuccessful attempt at writing a novel was at the age of twelve.
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In his third year at Brasenose College at Oxford, Wordsworth began studying literature instead of science. It was here that he began writing poetry.
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Golding worked as a writer, actor, and producer for a small theater in an out-of-the-way part of London from 1935 to 1939, supplementing his income with a job as a social worker. He cited Greek tragedians and Shakespeare rather than other novelists as his primary literary influences, citing the theater as his strongest influence.
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In 1935, Wordsworth graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a diploma in eduaction.
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Wordsworth served in the navy for several years and this exposed him to the cruelty of mankind, inspiring themes in some of his novels. He fought in World War II.
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Lord of the Flies was published in 1954
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Wordsworth was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel 'Lord of the Flies'.
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Golding died in Cornwall in 1993.