Happy birthday, writer William Golding

It is the birthday of English writer William Golding (1911), who is best remembered for his widely heralded novel Lord of the Flies (1954), the story of a group of British boys marooned on an uninhabited island. Golding won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He also won the British Man Booker Prize in literature for Rites of Passage (1980), the first of his To the Ends of the Earth sea trilogy about a troubled British warship.