Who was the author of the 1954 novel, "Lord of the Flies"?

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William Golding, a British novelist and later Nobel laureate (1983), wrote the 1954 novel Lord of the Flies. Drawing on his World War II naval experience, Golding crafted a stark allegory about human nature as a group of stranded schoolboys descend from order to brutality.

The title references “Beelzebub” (literally “Lord of the Flies”), signaling the