Lord of the Flies
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Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of prepubescent British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attem
The original UK Lord of the Flies book cover
William Golding
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Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies, Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, Gol
Lord of the Flies
…Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of prepubescent British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves…
Golding in 1983
Plaque at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury.
Golding (left), Artur Lundkvist, and Jean-Paul Sartre at a writers' congress in Leningrad, USSR, 1963