Lord of the Flies: About the Author William Golding the author of Lord of the Flies was born in Great Britain in 1911 and throughout almost his entire lifetime, he has lived and witnessed the true evil within all men. During his childhood the first World War beginning in 1914, and was followed many years later by the savagery of World War II. He has seen powerful dictators rise and fall; he has witnessed entire nations crumble, the massive slaughter of the Holocaust come and go, weapons of death destroy entire cities, and he has lived through a time when the world was divided in half and only a single spark was needed to set off what was needed for world destruction. It was during this time that Golding wrote the Lord of the Flies. The title itself suggests true evil and destruction; in Hebrew it is translated as Ba'alzevuv and in Greek, Beelzebub --....

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