i William Golding’s Lord of the Flies stage by AGTING EDITION‘William Golding’s Lord of the Flies adapted forthe stage by Nigel Williams Lord of the Flee appeated in 2954, twas William Golding’ first published covel, and years latee he said that writing the book was “like lamenting the lost childhood of the world”. Golding who was born in 1912 and served in the Royal Navy duzing the Second World Was, worked for many years as a schoolmaster. He went on to produce another eleven novels, among them The Iuheritors, Pincher Marti, The Spire, and Darkness Visible. He won the Booker Prize in ra80 with Rites of Passage. Golding vwas avwarded the Nobel Prize for Litcrature ia r983 and ‘was knighted in 1988. He died in 1995. Nigel Williams was born in Cheshiré in r948, educated at Highgate School and Oriel Collegs, Oxford and is maeried with thiee sons, He is the author of TV and stage plays, and several novels, inctuding the bestselling Winbledor Poisoner, They Cane from sw19, East of Wimbledon and Scones from a Potsoner’s Lifebaby il Wins William Golding’s Lord of the Flies od ee tine CLOUD THRICE eras Nmucte [ousorr fares wrececna adiapted for the stage by ‘a encrianen FOROMER ‘Nigel Williams HRY caate FXO 535 sears POM 4 FOL oajicton eta A wOAT Jaber and faber