William Golding failed to find a publisher for 'Lord of the Flies' twenty-one times before Faber and Faber took a chance on it in 1954. He'd been a schoolteacher for years and said that teaching boys gave him direct evidence for everything that happened on his fictional island. He won the Nobel Prize in 1983. Born 1911 in Cornwall, he spent decades being the author of a book that English teachers assigned and students never forgot. He left behind one of the most argued-about endings in modern fiction.
September 19, 1911
115 years ago
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