told NPR that she was “absolutely” inspired by the real-life plane crash and William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” when they came up with the idea to tell a similar tale from the women ...

William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954. A group of boys are stranded on a deserted island after their plane crashes. There are no adults and the boys struggle to live ...

Lord of the Flies is an iconic 1950s story from William Golding of a group of young schoolchildren who find themselves stranded on a tropical island with no adults, following a deadly plane crash.