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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
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
The Inheritors is a work of prehistoric fiction and the second novel by the British author William Golding, best known for his first novel, Lord of the Flies. It concerns the extinction of one of the
William Golding
…Williams, 1995), describes a group of boys stranded on a tropical island descending into a lawless and increasingly wild existence before being rescued. The Inheritors (1955) depicts a tribe of gentle Neanderthals encountering modern humans, who by comparison are deceitful and violent. His 1956 novel Pincher Martin…
First edition cover depicting The Sorcerer
Restoration of Le Moustier Neanderthals (Charles R. Knight, 1920)