William Golding (1911– 1993) was born in Cornwall, England,
in 1911 and educated at Oxford University. His first book, Poems,
was published in 1934. Following a stint in the Royal Navy and
other diversions during and after World War II, Golding wrote his
first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), while teaching school. Many
novels followed, including The Inheritors (1955), Pincher Martin
(1956), and Free Fall (1959), as well as a play, The Brass
Butterfly (1958), and a collection of shorter works, The Hot Gates
and Other Occasional Pieces (1965). He received the James Tait
Black Memorial Prize for Darkness Visible (1979) and the Booker
Prize for Rites of Passage (1980). In 1983, he was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature “for his novels which, with the
perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and
universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world
of today.” He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature and
was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988. William Golding died in
June 1993 and is buried in Holy Trinity churchyard in Bowerchalke,
Wiltshire, in England.
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.
“One of the most complex studies of human nature and the tendencies
of societal forces ever written.”
—Jason Mott, National Book Award-winning author of Hell of a Book
and People Like Us.
"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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