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LONDON - Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding, whose classic novel "Lord of the Flies" won acclaim for its chilling story of the descent of marooned schoolboys into barbarism, died yesterday. He was 81.
Matthew Evans, chairman of Golding's publisher, Faber and Faber, said the likely cause of death was a heart attack.
"It happened very suddenly," said Golding's son-in-law, Terrell Carver.
The writer died at his home in Perranarworthal, near Falmouth in southern England.
Golding won the...