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William Golding was born in Cornwall, England.
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he started attending Brasenose College at Oxford, spending two years studying science, switching to literature in his third year, graduation in 1935 with a Arts English degree and a diploma in teaching
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Golding worked as a writer, actor, and producer for a small theater in London, paying his bills as a social worker, then in 1939 he became a teacher at an English and philosophy school in Salisbury at Bishop Wordsworths School, serving in the Royal Navy during World War 2, and leaving the school in 1961
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when he started teaching, the same year he married Ann Brookfield, who he had two children with
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From joining the Royal Navy in 1940 and serving five years, he saw the truth that mankind isn’t perfect, writing about it in his works, including Lord of the Flies
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William Golding died in Cornwall in 1993