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Williams birth
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Golding's Life
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Attempt at first novel at age 12
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Published first work
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Graduated from Brasenose College
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Golding took a position teaching English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury.
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married
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Golding temporarily abandoned the profession to join the Royal Navy and fight in World War II.
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First child
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Golding went back to teaching and writing.
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Second child
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after 21 rejections, Golding published his first and most acclaimed novel, Lord of the Flies.
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the year after Golding retired from teaching, Peter Brook made a film adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel.
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Rites of Passage wins Booker McConnell Prize
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Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature
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he was knighted by England’s Queen Elizabeth II.
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a new film version of the Lord of the Flies was released
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died of a heart attack