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William Golding

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    Primary school

    He went to Marlborough Grammar school. He also went to Brasenose College. after he became a British novelist. Also, worked in a settlement house
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    Education

    He went to college and then became a teacher for a little bit and his education was good. He got a science degree at college and then took a second English degree in 1934
  • Childhood

    He would bully his peers. Also, be considered as a brat. He grew up next to a graveyard
  • Career

    he became a English teacher and philosophy in Salisbury in 1935. and then in 1940 he stopped teaching to join the royal navy. In 1954 he published his first novel, and became an author
  • Military

    joined royal navy in 1940. He served in a destroyer and was involved in pursuit and the sinking in Germany. and commanding landing crafts
  • Won James Talk black memorial prize for darkness visible

  • Won booker prize

  • Won Nobel prize in literature

  • Death