William Golding’s MonstersWilliam Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Fliesby John CareyFaber & FaberJohn Carey’sdiscusses the novelist and his work. He has secured access to and presented to the public such a mass of material that his biography will be a valuable resource for any future attempts to discuss Golding’s life and works. Click here to subscribeHowever, valuable as they are, these sources pale in comparison to the most significant evidence for Golding’s life and troubled thought, the Golding family archive. Golding’s father was science master at Marlborough Grammar School from 1905. Marlborough has another school, Marlborough College, and this bastion of privilege seems to have cast a shadow over Golding’s entire life.