William golding

Redman/APBritish author William Golding in 1983, the year he won the Nobel Prize for literature.English novelist William Golding (1911) Quotable notable: Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that...

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William Golding, author of "Lord of the Flies"

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men......William Golding

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983 was awarded to William Golding "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"

William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies By John Carey (Free Press, 573 pp., $32.50) The publishing history of Lord of the Flies reads like a fairy tale. In 1953, more than half a century ago, a grubby, dog-eared manuscript that had made the rounds (and of which only the first twenty or so pages had received serious attention) arrived at the office of Faber & Faber, the most disti...

'Lord of the Flies' cover by André François

Lord of the Flies by William Golding Capricorn Books New York Copyright 1955 by Coward-McCann Capricon Books, G.P. Putnam's Sons New York, 1959 Seventeenth Impression

60 years after the publication of Lord of the Flies students are still fascinated with William Golding's story of survival. These lesson plan ideas will help teachers engage students on a daily basis.