Born in Cornwall, England, in 1911 and educated at Oxford
University, William Gerald Golding's first book, Poems, was
published in 1935. Following a stint in the Royal Navy and other
diversions during and after World War II, Golding wrote Lord of
the Flies while teaching school. This was the first of several
novels including Pincher Martin, Free Fall, and
The Inheritors and a play, The Brass Butterfly, which
led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1983.
Stephen King, the world's bestselling novelist, was educated at the
University of Maine at Orono. He lives with his wife, the novelist
Tabitha King, and their children in Bangor, Maine.
"Lord of the Flies is one of my favorite books. That was a big
influence on me as a teenager, I still read it every couple of
years."
—Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games
"As exciting, relevant, and thought-provoking now as it was when
Golding published it in 1954."
—Stephen King
"The most influential novel...since Salinger's Catcher in the
Rye."
—Time
"This brilliant work is a frightening parody on man's return (in a
few weeks) to that state of darkness from which it took him
thousands of years to emerge. Fully to succeed, a fantasy must
approach very close to reality. Lord of the Flies does.
It must also be superbly written. It is."
—The New York Times Book Review
"Sparely and elegantly written...Lord of the Flies is a grim
anti-pastoral in which adults are disguised as children who
replicate the worst of their elders' heritage of ignorance,
violence, and warfare."
—Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books
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