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William Golding was born September 19, 1911, in Newquay, Cornwall. -
William Golding's childhood was marked by his father's rationalism and his mother's Cornish suffragette background. He had a brother named Joseph.
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He started writing at age 7.
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He published his first book, Lord of The Flies in 1954 -
His last novel was The Double Tongue