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Sir William Gerald Golding was born in 1911 in Saint Columb Minor in

Cornwall, England,. He was an English novelist, playwright, and poet.


William Golding was born in his grandmother's house, 47
Mountwise, Newquay, Hw grow up in
Marlborough, Wiltshire, His father Alec golding was a science teacher
at Marlborough Grammar School .William Golding is best know for his
novel Lord Of The Flies, He won a novel prize for literature in 1980
for Rites Of Passage, The book that lead to his firts trilogy To Ends Of
The Earth. Golding was made a knighted by Elizabeth II, he was in the
royas society of literature.In the year 2008 The Times him on third on
there list odo greatest British writers.In 1930 he went to to Brasenose
College, Oxford ,there he read natural sciences for two years befoe
he trsnafer to english literature.
William was married to Ann Brookflied , she was a analytic chemist, on
september 30 of 1939 they had 2 childen , Judith and David. In WW2
he join the royal navy 81940). Golding participate in the invasion of
Normandy commanding a landing ship that fired rockets to the beach.
In 1985 he and his wife move to Perranarworthal where eight years
later h e died bya a heart failure.

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