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William Golding

  • birth

    Born September 19 in 1911 and was born in Newquay, Cornwall, England.
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    childhood

    william lived next to a grave yard and marked by his father's rationalism and his mother's Cornish-suffragette background.
  • academics

    started to reading for a science degree, but changed course after two years. He took a second class degree for English in 1934 and gained a Diploma in Education in 1937.
  • career

    English novelist and a poet.
  • family

    his parents, Alec Golding and Mildred Curnoe; his older brother, Joseph Thomas Golding; his wife, Ann Brookfield; and his two children, David and Judith Golding
  • Lord of the flies

    In 1954,, William Golding published the book called the lord of the Flies
  • awards

    William Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
  • death

    June 19, 1993