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Birth
William Golding was born on September 19, 1911, in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England. -
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Family
Golding was engaged to Molly Evans, a woman from Marlborough, who was well liked by both of his parents. However, he broke off the engagement and married Ann Brookfield, an analytical chemist, on 30 September 1939. They had two children, David (born September 1940) and Judith (born July 1945). -
Childhood
He was raised in a 14th-century house next door to a graveyard. His mother, Mildred, was an active suffragette who fought for women's right to vote. His father, Alex, worked as a schoolmaster. -
The start of his career
William was a school teacher novelist playwright poet who went to Brasenose College, in Oxford.his most popular book is the "Lord of the Flies Rites of Passage". -
Joined the Military
For several years he worked as a teacher before enlisting in the British Navy in 1940. Golding took part in several battles during World War II. -
Fun fact!
Wiliam Golding was rejected 21 times before publishing his first novel, Lord of the Flies. -
Lord of the flies
Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves. -
William won the "Booker Prize"
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William won the, "Nobel Prize" in literature
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Death
In 1985, Golding and his wife moved to a house called Tullimaar in Perranarworthal, near Truro, Cornwall. He died of heart failure eight years later on 19 June 1993.