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Birth
William Golding was born in Cornwall, England. -
education
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 -
Career
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 -
Family life
when he started teaching, the same year he married Ann Brookfield, who he had two children with -
Works
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 -
Death
William Golding died in Cornwall in 1993