Wiliam Golding. The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies. A Life (2009). To be published on 3 September by Faber and Faber, this will be the first biography of Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Golding, based on an extensive and previously unexamined manuscript archive, which includes a two-and-a-half million word journal that Golding kept every day for twenty years.
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