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William Golding.

Writer · United Kingdom · b. 1911

Sir William Golding (1911–1993): Nobel Prize-winning British novelist best known to YA readers as the author of Lord of the Flies — defining post-war secondary-school novel.

Sir William Golding (1911–1993) was a British novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (1983), best known to children's / YA readers as the author of Lord of the Flies (1954), the novel about British schoolboys stranded on a tropical island whose attempted self-government collapses into violence. Golding's wider adult work (Rites of Passage, The Spire, The Inheritors) is out of scope. Lord of the Flies remains one of the most-taught secondary-school novels in English; this corpus contains the graphic-novel adaptation (by Aimée de Jongh and Fred Fordham). A canonical-classic twentieth-century novelist whose YA-adjacent work anchors UK English curricula.