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Overall, Lord of the Flies doesn't seem to be very popular, but I've always liked the almost Hobbesian look at the state of nature and how humanity behaves when left alone without societal rules and structures. I've just finished rereading this book for my book club but, to be honest, I've liked it ever since my class were made to read it in high school. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945."

He was awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth. Classical Greek literature, such as that of Euripides, and The Battle of Maldon, an Anglo-Saxon oeuvre of unknown author influenced him.Ĭollege students in the 1950s and 1960s gave the attention to Lord of the Flies, first novel of Golding their attention drove that of literary critics. This experience strongly influenced his future novels.

Golding spent two years, focusing on sciences, in Oxford but changed his educational emphasis to English, especially Anglo-Saxon, literature.ĭuring World War II, he served as part of the royal Navy, which he left five years later.

People best know this British novelist, poet, and playwright for this novel. People note British writer Sir William Gerald Golding for his dark novels, especially The Lord of the Flies (1954) he won the Nobel Prize of 1983 for literature.