William Golding was born in Cornwall, England, in 1911 and
educated at Oxford University. His first book, Poems, was published
in 1935. Following a stint in the Royal Navy during World War II,
Golding wrote Lord of the Flies while teaching school. It was the
first of several works, including the novels 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.
Lois Lowry is the two-time Newbery Award–winning author of
Number the Stars, The Giver Quartet, and numerous other books for
young adults.
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of
them worldwide bestsellers. He is the recipient of the 2003
National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to
American Letters and the 2015 National Medal of Arts.
Jennifer Buehler is an associate professor of educational
studies at Saint Louis University and President of The Assembly on
Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of
English.
E. M. Forster was an English writer best remembered for
novels including Passage to India, Howards End, and A Room with a
View.
E. L. Epstein was a literary scholar and book editor who
published the first American paperback edition of Lord of the Flies
in 1959.
"Lord of the Flies is one of my favorite books. I still read
it every couple of years."
—Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games trilogy
"I finished the last half of Lord of the Flies in a single
afternoon, my eyes wide, my heart pounding, not thinking, just
inhaling....My rule of thumb as a writer and reader—largely formed
by Lord of the Flies—is feel it first, think about it
later."
—Stephen King
"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
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