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William Golding was born on September 19th, 1911 in Newquay. -
When William was 12, he attended a school that his father ran called Marlborough grammar school during his young ages. William was bratty and troublesome many say he enjoyed hurting others. -
William Golding was attending school at Marlborough Grammar School, where his father taught, and at Brasenose College, Oxford, William Golding graduated in 1935. -
William Golding started teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury. He temporarily left teaching in 1940 to join the Royal Navy. -
Golding was engaged to Molly Evans, a woman from Marlborough, who was liked by both of his parents. However, he broke off the engagement and married Ann Brookfield, an analytical chemist, on 30 September 1939. -
William Golding won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the British author. William Golding also went into the Navy in 1940. -
He wrote 11 novels, the best-known being Lord of the Flies, The Spire and Rites of Passage, which won the Booker Prize in 1980. -
William Golding wrote Rites of Passage in 1980. The book is about a fateful voyage to Australia during which the crew and passengers learn extraordinary things about each other and themselves. -
In 1980 William Golding wrote Fuega en las Entras. This book is about The plot concerns a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves. -
Sadly, on June 19, 1993 William Golding died of heart failure.