William Golding.

(Saint Columb Minor, Cornualles, 1911-id., 1993) British novelist. Although his literary vocation was early, the studies, he work as professor and, mainly, his participation in the II World War made that his first novels were only published when forty years passed. «The Lord of the flies» (1954), his more important work, narrates the adventure of a group of English children that try to organize their survival in a deserted island. The story is passed over by that pessimistic vision about the human condition that the war had left in Golding, and that he summarized in the following aphorism: «The wickedness is the man's innate condition that takes him to produce the wrong as the bee it produces the honey». However, his moral critic's rigor didn't eclipse his master like novelist of adventures. It has been compared J. Swift and H. Melville, allowing that the great success of «The Lord of the flies» even extended to a juvenile public.

          The enormous success of that novel radically changed his life, but it also shown it the difficult challenge of overcoming, or at least to equal, his own work. Among his more important books it is necessary to highlight: «Martin, the one tormented» (1956), «The needle» (1964), «The pyramid» (1967), «The god scorpion» (1971), «Rites in passing» (1960) and «The construction of the pyramid» (1982). All had unequal critic fortune and public, although it is undeniable the continuity that reaches in them their personal lonely world and at the same time inhabited by the most colorful fantasy. He was granted the prize literature Nobel in 1983, ten years before his death.