<P> In 1985, Golding and his wife moved to Tullimaar House at Perranarworthal, near Truro, Cornwall . He died of heart failure eight years later on 19 June 1993 . His body was buried in the parish churchyard of Bowerchalke, Wiltshire (near the Hampshire and Dorset county border). </P> <P> On his death he left the draft of a novel, The Double Tongue, set in ancient Delphi, which was published posthumously . His son David (born 1940) continues to live at Tullimaar House . </P> <P> In September 1953, after many rejections from other publishers, Golding sent a manuscript to Faber & Faber and was initially rejected by their reader . His book, however, was championed by Charles Monteith, a new editor at the firm . Monteith asked for some changes to the text and the novel was published in September 1954 as Lord of the Flies . </P> <P> After moving in 1958 from Salisbury to nearby Bowerchalke, he met his fellow villager and walking companion James Lovelock . The two discussed Lovelock's hypothesis, that the living matter of the planet Earth functions like a single organism, and Golding suggested naming this hypothesis after Gaia, the goddess of the earth in Greek mythology . His publishing success made it possible for Golding to resign his teaching post at Bishop Wordsworth's School in 1961, and he spent that academic year in the United States as writer - in - residence at Hollins College, near Roanoke, Virginia . </P>

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