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Birth
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began attending Brasenose College at Oxford
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he graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in English
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teaching English and Philosophy
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worked as a writer, actor, and producer with a small theater in an unfashionable part of London
From 1935-1939 -
joined the Royal Navy
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five years Golding spent in the navy
From 1940-1945 -
publish first novel "Lord of the Flies"
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remained in the teaching position
he stayed a teacher but left in 1961 -
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature