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Birthdate
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Published his first book
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Published his first big novel "Lord of the Flies"
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Film adaption of Lord of the Flies was made
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winner of the 1980 Booker McConnell Prize
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Golding awarded the Nobel Prize for literature
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Died of Heart attack
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completed manuscript for The Double Tongue was published posthumously.