![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen King has stated that the Castle Rock in Lord of the Flies continues to inspire him, so much so that he named his entertainment company after it and has placed the Golding novel prominently in his novels Hearts in Atlantis and Cujo. He received the Booker Prize for the novel Rites of Passage in 1980, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. Golding went on to become one of the most popular and influential British authors to have emerged since World War II. ![]() This was to become Lord of the Flies, a book that would sell in the millions and bring Golding worldwide recognition. His work had been rejected by every major publisher-until an editor at Faber and Faber pulled his manuscript off the rejection pile. In 1953, William Golding was a provincial schoolteacher writing books on his breaks, lunch hours and holidays. ".he first major biography of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Golding.The author is uniquely equipped to handle the task the first person allowed accessed to Golding's archive.A historically important treatment." 10 Books to thank your favorite teacher.William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies (Hardcover) – BookaliciousMY ![]()
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