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10.22.09 Kimberly Bigelow William Golding Summary Mrs. Laurencot William Golding was born in 1911 in Cornwall. Throughout his life he attended many schools including Marlborough Grammar School, Brasenose College,

and Bishop Wordsworth's School. Golding had many different jobs throughout his years as well. In addition to being a writer he was a schoolmaster, a lecturer,

an actor, a sailor, and a musician, too. Golding also joined the Royal Navy in 1940 and retired as Lieutenant in command of a rocket ship.

William Golding is well known for his incredible novels. He wrote many of these starting with __Lord of the Flies__, published in 1954, and ending with __The

Double Tongue__, left in draft at his death but published in 1995. Golding won the 'Booker Prize' for his novel, __Rites of Passage__, in 1980.

William Golding retired from teaching in 1962 and lived in Wiltshire. He died on June 19, 1993.