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๐ฌ๐ง William Golding was born on September 19, 1911, in Cornwall, England.
๐ He is best known for his book 'Lord of the Flies', about boys stranded on an island.
๐ Golding won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983 for his outstanding writing.
โ His mother was a suffragette, and his father was a schoolteacher.
๐ญ As a child, Golding loved storytelling and wrote plays for his friends.
๐ His writing career began after World War II.
๐ฎ 'Lord of the Flies' was published in 1954 after many rejections.
๐ Other famous books by Golding include 'The Inheritors' and 'The Spire'.
๐ His writing explores themes like good vs. evil and loss of innocence.
๐๏ธ In 1980, he received the Booker Prize for his novel 'Rites of Passage'.
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