William Golding. The Man Who Wrote ‘Lord of the Flies’: A Life. John Carey. Free Press: 574 pp., $32.50. William Golding, the writer, has been a subject for study: reviews and critical essays ...

Renowned British novelist William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” is to be adapted for television for the first time by Eleven and multi-BAFTA award-winning screenwriter Jack Thorne, known for ...

Man as an Island. A biography of William Golding, whose first novel — “Lord of the Flies” — began as a blessing to its 42-year-old author, but came to seem like a curse overshadowing his ...

Forget Lord of the Flies – this is the William Golding novel you need Booker Prize-winner Marlon James on the stark, shocking brilliance of Golding's 1956 masterpiece, Pincher Martin ...

William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies,” a 1954 tale of schoolboys’ savagery, is a classic. But how would the story change if the cast of boys was joined by girls? Or if it all went down in ...

William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, tried to rape a 15-year-old girl when he was an Oxford University undergraduate, he wrote in a recently-uncovered memoir.