Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies  – William Golding (1911-93), British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist and poet, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is best known for his first published work, Lord of the Flies, which not only established Golding?s reputation as a significant contemporary author but also presented what became his constant theme : the conflict between the forces of light and dark within the human soul.